Capt. R. C. Beavan on various Indian Birds. 449 



The last specimen was procured at Morar, near Gvvalior. 



I did not meet with the female. In his description of the 

 plumage of the male, Dr. Jerdon does not mention the grey 

 edgings to the winglet and primary wing-coverts (which edg- 

 ings are also seen, somewhat more rufous, on the tips of the 

 secondaries and tertials), nor that the under wing-coverts are 

 pure black like the rest of the breast. " Sooty black " is inap- 

 propriate, the fresh-killed bird being pure black. The middle 

 pair of tail-feathers have the black 1*5 inch in extent, the outer 

 -625, the rest of the tail being pure white. Bill and legs black ; 

 irides dark brown. 



489. Saxicola picata. Pied Stone-Chat. 



I obtained a male at Umballah, October 23rd, 1866, near 

 the race-course, and on the next day a female in the same place. 

 Dimensions : — 



Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Spread foot. Bill. Gape. Extent. 

 cJ 6-625 3-625 2-63 -9375 1-1875 -5625 -87 U-25 



2 6-25 3-25 2-375 "75 1-125 -5 -75 9-875 



Irides dark brown ; bill and legs black ; under tail-coverts 

 pale cinnamon. The general colour of the female (undescribed 

 by Dr. Jerdon) is greyish-brown, with a faint tinge of fulvous 

 on the breast and wing-coverts ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 white, the upper tail-coverts and parts of tail being of a purer 

 white, as in the male ; irides and bill and legs the same as in 

 the male. This species, like the rest of the genus, is a cold- 

 weather visitant, apparently but lately arrived (October) and 

 not at all common. 



490. Saxicola capistrata, Gould, B. As. pt. xvii. ; S. leu- 

 comela, Jerdon {?iec Pallas). Grey-headed Stone-Chat. 



I procured some specimens at Umballah in November 1866. 



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