11. SAXICOLA. 389 



The Euphrates Pied Chat breeds in the rocky hills of the Cau- 

 casus, Eastern Asia Minor, Palestine, and Persia, its range extendino- 

 only a short distance beyond the valley of the Euphrates, lu 

 Palestine it is a resident, but it appears to leave the other parts of 

 its breeding-range, and, passing through Egypt on migration, winters 

 m Xubia. 



o, h. (S ad. sk. Persia. 



c. S ad. sk. Shiraz, 5000 feet, June 1.3, Col. St. John [C 1 



18GU. ■-■■ 



d. cf ad. sk. Neby Yunas, Palestme. Canon Tristram [C 1 



e. d ad. sk. Bethel, December 21, 18G3 F. Godman and O. Sal- 



{Tristram). vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



/. c? ad. sk. Anascha, TauriLS, March F. Godman and Sal- 



lS,lS7G(C.G.IJmiford). Ym, Esqrs. fP 1 



fj. 6 ad. St. [Asia Minor.] Purchased. 



22, Saxicola chrysopygia, 



DromoL-ea chrysopygia, De Filippi, Arch. Zool. Genova, ii. p 381 



(18G3) ; Be Filippi, Viar/ff. Pers. p. 347 (I860). 

 Saxicola chrysopygia (De Fil.), Gray, Hand-l. B.i.-p. 226 no 3'>.57 



(1869) ; Bhmf. Fast. Persia, ii. p. 151 (1876). 

 Sa.xicola kingi, Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 29 ; id. Strai/ Feath. i. p 187 



(1873). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour of the upper 

 parts brown, shading iuto pale dull chestnut on the rump ; lores 

 dark brown ; ear-coverts darkish brown ; eye-stripe somewhat in- 

 distinct, pale grey; wings brown, the secondaries tipped with 

 greyish white and margined with greyish buff; upper tail-coverts 

 pale dull chestnut ; tail darkish brown, the basal third of the two 

 centre feathers and the basal three fourths of the others dull chest- 

 nut. Chiu, throat, and centre of belly greyish white, shading into 

 pale brown on the breast and Hanks, and into dull chestnut on the 

 under tail- coverts ; axillaries and under -n-ing-coverts pale o-rev 

 with darker centres; inner margin of quills pale huffish brown! 

 Pill, legs, feet, and claws black. Wing with the third, fourth," 

 and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary equal 

 to the sixth, bastard primary 0-95 to 0-S inch. Length of wino- 

 y-0 to 3-55 inches, tail 2-4:1 to 2-25, culmen 0-72 to U-GS tarsus 

 1-1 to 1-0. 



The female scarcely differs from the male, nor is any important 

 change of colour produced by the autumn moult. Birds of the year 

 and young in Jirat plumage appear to be unknown. 



The Red-tailed Chat breeds in the rocky hills of Persia, and 

 winters in Paluchistau, Scinde, and North-west India. 



a. $ad. sk. Rugin, S.E. of Karman, S.E. W.T.Blanford.Esq 



Persia, UOOOfeet, May 1, 1872. fC ] 



h. S ad. sk. Sita Xai, Scinde, Dec. 2, 1876. W. T.' Blanford, Esq 



[P.l. 

 c. S ad. sk. Nari Nai, Scinde, Jan. 1,1877. W.T. Blanford Y.-^n 



[P.]. 



