368 TURDID.^. 



black. Wings with the third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly 

 equal and longest, second primary intermediate in length between 

 the sixth and seventh, bastard primary ()-9 to 0-75 inch. Length 

 of wing 3-7 to 3-4 inches (females 3-5 to 3-3), tail 2-7 to 2*45, 

 culmeu 0"7 to 0-6, tarsus 1-0 to 0-86. 



Adult feinaJe in breeding-plumage. General colour earthy brown, 

 slightly paler on the margins of the quills and wing-coverts, the 

 chin, upper throat, and breast, shading into nearly white on the 

 belly, and more or less suffused with huff on the under tail-coverts ; 

 rump and tail as in the male, except that the white is occasionally 

 slightly suffused with buff, and the dark brown is not so dark. 

 After the autumn moult no change in the appearance of the plumage 

 occurs, except that the colours arc richer and deeper. Birds of the 

 year appear to be unknown. Young in first plumage resemble the 

 female, but have obscure pale centres and dark margins to the 

 feathers of the head, back, throat, and breast ; the margins to the 

 innermost secondaries and the tips of the (juills and tail-feathers are 

 broad and pale isabelline brown. 



The Pied Chat breeds in the highlands of Southern Persia and 

 South Afghanistan, wintering in Baluchistan, Scinde, and North- 

 west India. 



«. S fid. st. India. Purchased, 



h. (5 ad. sk. Behar. li 11. Hodgson, Esq. [I'.]. 



c,d. (5 5 ^^- ^^- 'Scinde (Dr. Gould). India Museum. 



e. d ad. sk. Scinde. _ _ W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



/. 2 ad.sk. Nanshabro District, Scinde, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.J. 



Jan. 7, 1876. 



f/,h,i. J ad.sk. Afghanistan {Griffith). India Museum. 



k. cS ^d. sk. Bampusht, Baluchistan, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



Feb. 28, 1872. 



I c? ad. sk. Bampusht, Mar. 5, 1872. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



m. c? juv. sk. Sis-i-jura,S.W. ofKamian, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



S. Persia, 6500 feet. 



4. Saxicola capistrata. 



Saxicola leucomela (Pull.), aptid Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 1.31 

 (1847); apud Blyth, Cut. B. 3fus. As. Soc. p. 1()7'(1849); apud 

 Jerd. B. Jnd. ii. p. lol (1863) ; ajnid Dresser, Ibis 1875, p. 336. 



Saxicola capistrata, Goidd, B. Asia, pt. xvii. (1865) ; Gray, Hund-l. 

 B. i. p. 224. no. 3209 (1869). 



Saxicola lugens, Licht. ajmd Secertz. Turkest. Jemtn. p. 65 (1873). 



Saxicola morio, Hempr. et Ehr. apud Blanf. (^- Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, 

 p. 225 (partitn) ; apud Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxvii. (1874, parfim) ; 

 ainid Severtz. Stray Feath. iii. p. 429 (1875). 



Adult male in hrceding-plumage. Head and nape greyish white, 

 shading into white on the hind neck and eye-stripes ; lores, chin, 

 throat, ear-coverts, sides of neck, scaiiulars, back, wing-coverts, ax- 

 illaries, and under wing-coverts black ; quills dark brown, slightly 

 paler on the under surface ; mmp, upper tail-coverts, breast. Hanks, 

 belly, and under tail-coverts white, the latter occasionally suffused 

 with buff ; tail white, the two central feathers nearly black for the 

 terminal half, and the remainder tipped with nearly black from a 

 quarter to half an inch. Bill, legs, feet, and claws black. Wings 



