11. SAXICOLA. 3G9 



with the third, fourth, aud tifth pi'imaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primary ijiterraediate in length between the sixth and 

 seventh, bastard primary OO to 0-7 inch. Length of wing 3-7 to 

 3-5 inches, tail 2-7 to 2-4, cnlmen 0-7 to 0-02, tarsus M to 09. 



The female of this species, strange to say, is unknown ; it has 

 probably been confounded with the female of S. pieata, which 

 may possibly be indistinguishable from it. After the autumn moult 

 the crown of the head is somewhat greyer. Birds of the year and 

 young in first plumage appear to be unknown. 



The Indian C!hat breeds in the cultivated districts of Turkestan, 

 and winters in North-west and Central India, occasionally straying 

 into Scinde. 



a. S ad. sk. India. Capt. Boys [P.]. 



h, c. (£ ad. sk. Afghanistan {Griffith). India Museum. 



d, €. S ad. ak. Afghanistan ( Grvffith^. India Museum. 



5. Saxicola monacha. 



Saxicola monacha, Biipp.fide Tetnm. PL Col. no. SSO, fig. 1 (1825, S ) ; 



id. Neue Wirh., Voy. p. 79 (1885) ; id. Si/d. Uehers.'^. 58 (1845) ; 



Grm/, Gen. B. i. p. 17i) (1840) ; IL-mjI. Si/.'^t. Uehers. p. 26 (1856) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 226. no. '^I-i^ ( 186!)) ; Heu(il. Orn. N.O.- 



Afr. i. p. 356(1869) ; Shelley, B. Eyypt,-^. 78, pi. ii. (1872) ; Sharpe 



l<i Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xvi. (1873) ; Blanf ^- Dresser, P. Z. 8. 1874, 



p. 227; Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 150 (1876). 

 Saxicola pallida, Riipp. fide Cretzschm. Biipp. Atlas, pi. xxxiv. 



(1826, 2 ) ; id. Neue Wirh., Viiy. p. 80 (1835) ; id. Syst. Uebers. 



p. 58 (1845) ; Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 26 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 224. no. 3213 (1869). 

 Drouiolaea monacha {Riipp.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 302 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. 



Hein. i. p. 9 (1850) ; Hume, Stray Feath. 1873, p. 186. 

 Saxicola gracilis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 35 (1854). 



Adult male in hreedhuj-plumacje. Head and nape white ; lores, 

 the feathers immediately above and behind the eye, ear-coverts, 

 back, scapulars, wing-coverts, chin, throat, breast, axillaries, and 

 under wing-coverts black; ([uills dark brown, almost black, slightly 

 paler on the under surface ; I'ump, upper tail-coverts, belly, Hanks, 

 and under tail-coverts white ; tail white, except the terminal half 

 of the two central tail-feathers and an occasional brown spot near 

 the tip of some of the others. Eill, legs, feet, and claws black. 

 Wing with the third and fourth primaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primary about equal to the fitth, bastard primary 0-8 to 

 0-7o inch. Length of wing 4-2 to 4-0 inches (females 4-0 to 3'85), 

 tail 2-95 to 2-75, culmen 0-9 to 0-8, tarsus 0-91 to 0-89. 



Adult femide in hreed iny-jdumai je . General colour of the upper 

 parts buHish brown ; wings and wing-coverts brown, the outer webs 

 margined with buffish ])ro\vn ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, 

 suffused with Initf ; tail-feathers white, suffused with buff, except 

 the terminal two thirds of the two central feathers, which are brown, 

 and a brown terminal band on the others, varying from one eighth 

 of an inch on the subcentral feathers to half an inch ou the outside 

 feathers ; the whole of the underparts are pale huffish brown, 



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