12. I'RAriNCOl.A. 105 



Adult female. General colour above earthy browu, with more or 

 less distinct remains of sandy-brown edges ; upper tail-coverts sandy 

 buff; tail-feathers brown, dull white along the basal portion of the 

 inner Aveb; wings brown, with huffy-white tips to the greater 

 coverts ; wing-patch smaller than in the males, formed by the white 

 outer webs of the innermost median and greater coverts, the outer 

 webs of the innermost secondaries being also dull white near the 

 base ; lores fulvous, extending over the fore part of the eye ; round 

 the latter a ring of sandy buff; ear-coverts brown, with fulvous 

 shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat white ; breast and sides of body paler 

 orange-buff, the centre of the abdomen buify white ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale sandy buff with dusky bases ; quills 

 brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5 inches, culmen 0-5, Aving 2-4:5, tail 2, tarsus 0-8. 



JIab. India and Burmese countries. 



a. (Jad.sk. N.W.Himalayas. Capt. StackhousePinwill[P.]. 



b,c. d" 5 aestiv. sk. Upper Biirmah. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



d. c? hiem. sk. Upper Burmah. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



12. Pratincola caprata. 



La Traquet de I'isle de Lujon, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 444, pi. 24. figs. 2, 3 ; 



Dauhent. PI. Enl. vi. pi. 235. 

 Motacilla caprata, Linn. S. Nat. i. p. 335; Martens, J.f. 0. 18G6, p. 10. 

 CEnautbe caprata, Tieill. N. Did. xxi. p. 433. 

 Saxicola fruticola, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 157. 

 Saxicola bicolor, Sijkes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 92. 

 Saxicola erythi-opygia, Si/kes, t. c. p. 92. 

 Motacilla sylvatica, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 575. 

 Saxicola caprata, Jerd. Madr. J. x. p. 265; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 179; 



id. Cat. B. Nepal coll. JIuclfjs. p. 71 ; Finsch, Neu-Gitinea, p. 167. 

 Saxicola meloleuca, Hodgs. Icon. ined. Passeres, pi. 98 {Kodr/s. no. 420): 



id, in Grai/'s Zool. 3Iisc. p. 83. 

 Pratincola caprata, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 129; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



A. S. B. p. 169 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 305 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 11 ; 



Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 284 ; Jerd. B. Ind. 



ii. p." 123 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 228, no. 3282 ; Holdsio. P. Z. S. 



1872, p. 454; Hume, Str.F. 1873, f. 182 ; AdaiJi, t. c. -p. 379 ; Ball, 



Str. F. 1874, p. 413 ; Hume, t. c. p. 477, et 1875, p. 134 ; id. Nests 



and Eqgs Ind. B. p. 313; Brooks, S. F. 1875, p. 238; Blijth S)- 



Walden, B. Burm. p. 102 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 63, ix. p. 192 ; 



Salvad. Ucc. Bor-n. p. 252 ; Sliarpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. new series, i. 



p. 335; Blanford, East Persia, p. 144; Fairh. S. F. 1876, p. 259; 



Btdler, 8. F. 1877, p. 229 ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 696, 761. 



1878, p. 710; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 393 ; Hume ^- Davison, S. F. 



1878, p. 334. 

 Pratincola atrata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xx. p. 177; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 



p. 124; Gray, Hun'd-l. B. i. p. 228, no. 3281; Holdsic. P. Z. S. 



1872, p. 454 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 03. 

 Pratincola bicolor, Hume, Nests and Eyr/s Ind. B. p. 314. 



Adtdt male. General colour above glossy black, including the 

 scapulars : wing-coveits and quills black, excepting a large white 



