11. SAXICOLA. 397 



The Blaok-backcd Eared Chat breeds in the plains of Xorth- 

 yestern Turkestan and Cashmere, and winters in North-western 

 Arabia and the Bogos countrj. 



The British Museum does not possess an example of this very 

 rare Chat. The type (an adult male) is in the Berlin Museum. 

 JNo other skins are known, except those collected by Severtzoff 

 examples of which are in the St. Petersburg Museum, and those 

 collected by Dr. Scully in Gilgit, one of which is in my coUection. 



28. Saxicola pileata. 



^'J?rV5" n -"^ "" ^'Pj'^l^i"' •1'^ Cap de Bonne-esperance, i?«#. 

 -atsf. JS (if. Ots. V. -p. 248 (1778) f , m 



Cape Wheatear, i«^/*. Gen. Sijn. ii. p. 470 (178.3). 

 BIack-li..oded ^^ heatear, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 47] (-1783) 

 Motacilla hottentotta, Gmel. Syst. Xat. i p [iOo (1788) 

 MotacUla pileata, Gmel. Syst. Xat. i. p. 965 (1788) 

 Sy via hotteututta {Gmel), Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. .5.31 (1790) 

 Sylvia pileata [Gmel), Lath. lnd. Orn. ii p .5.31 (1700) 

 Le Traqiiet imitateur, Levaill. Ols. dj.fr. iv. p. 92. pi... 181 182 ri80.5) 

 O^nan be iniitatrix VieiU. N. Diet, (t Hist. Lf.lxi. p: 422 (1818)^" 



^}r 2 L^-'-«.'/' &««; ^- 1- P- 179 (1846); Suhdev. K. 8v Vet^Ak 

 Bijanr. Ld.,. 108 (W2, ;" i^l^S^k^'K^IlirS? 



^'s^i^^ wii8.sr^'^' ^''' ^'"'^- '■ ^- ^^^(18^0); ^«*- '^^«-- 



Saxlcda hottentotta (Gniel.), Strickl. ^- Sclafer, Jard. Contr. Orn. 

 f^:^^"^^ '■ ^•^'•- P- ''' ^'"''^ ' ^^«^^--^ Travels 

 Campicola liviugstonii, Tristram, P. Z. S. 1867 p 888 

 7l8°9) "''^'^°''" (r;7.Y;-««0, Gray,Hund-i. B. i. p. 225. no. 3239 



Adult male ia hreeding-plumcu^e. General colour of the upper 

 par s dull huffish chestnut brightest on the lower back, and dXs 

 on the hind neck, and .shading into black on the crown : lores, ear- 

 coyert., and sides of the neck black; forehead and eve-s Hpe 

 extending to the nape, white; wings and wing-coverts biwn the 

 greater median and lesser wing-coverts and the innermost secon- 

 daries edged with huffish chestnut: tail dark brown, ex ept the 

 basal fitth ot the two central tail-feathers and the basa half the 



black; belly white, shading into bufi^on the flanks and under tail 

 coverts; axilla nes and under wing-coverts white, with concealoi 

 du>ky bases. BiH, legs, feet, and claws black. Wing with th^ 

 third and fourth primaries nearly equal and longest, second^ rimar^^ 

 intermediate in length between the tilth and sixth batard nr ma -v 

 (KS to U-0 jnch. Length of wing 3-9 to 3-3 inches; ta^l 2 55 to "7 

 cnlmen 0-< 6 to ()-(U, tarsus 1-3 to Mr, - 00 to ^ _, 



It is not knox^-n that the /.„,«/. differs in plumage from the male 

 Afta-the autumn moult the bnffish-chestnut margins of the W- 



