]46 SYLVIAD.^. 



mid-toe to root of claw, 0-55 to 0-65, its claw straight, 0*2 to 0-24. — 

 {Hume, Sir. F. vol. i. p. 187.) 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Beloochistan, S. E. Persia, 

 Afghanistan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore and North Guzerat. In one 

 specimen I possess a female collected at Kiirrachee in January, the 

 feathers on the crown of the head are dark shafted, the tertiaries are 

 tipped greyish white, and the edge of wing is also greyish white, with 

 a few dusky spots ; the basal third or a little more of the inner webs 

 of the primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries. narrowly margined with 

 white, 



Saxicola isabellina, Crefszchm. Bvjjp. Atl. p. 52; id. Syst. Uehers. 

 p. 58 ; Bonap. Consp. i. p. 304; Gray, Handlist B. i. p. 225; Blf. and 

 Dresser, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 229; Dresser, B. Eur. pL xxviii. 1874; Blf. 

 East. Pers. ii. p. 147 ; Seehokm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. v. p. 400. Motacilla 

 stapazina. Fall. Zoogr. Rosso. As. i. p. 474; ex. Willuvghhy nee. 

 Motacilla stapazina, Lin. Saxicola saltator, Menet. Gat. Rais. Oauc. 

 p. 30. Severtz. Jevotn. Tttrkest. ip. 65. Saxicola oeuauthe (Lmn.) apud. 

 Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 132 ; Hume, Sir. F. i. pp. 45, 48,187; vii. pp. 57, 

 95,112 ; Murray, Hdhl., Zool, Sj-c, Sh>d, p. 148.— The Wheateae. 



Adult Male. — Head, neck, back, and scapulars sandy brown. A 

 stripe from the nostrils, above the eye as a supercilium; the nape white, 

 or buffy white, a narrow black stripe below this from the gape to the 

 eye ; chin buffy white ; throat, breast, and belly, pale buff, darker on 

 the breast ; rump and upper tail-coverts white ; under tail-coverts also 

 white, tinged with buffy ; primaries, their coverts, secondaries and 

 tertiaries brown, margined on their outer webs with whitish or buffy 

 white; the secondaries (in all Sind specimens) tipped with whitish ; 

 wing-coverts brown, margined with pale rufescent brown ; ear-coverts 

 rufescent brown ; tail white, the terminal half of the central feathers 

 and about one-third of the others dark brown ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts white; bill and legs black ; irides light brown. 



Length.. — 6-5 to 6*75 inches, wing 3-75, to 4, tail 2-75. 



Hah. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanis- 

 tan, Eastei-n Turkistan, Cashmere, Palestine, Abyssinia, Thibet and 

 North China. Breeds in Asia Minor, winters in Sind, N. W. Provinces, 

 Punjab, Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia. Occurs also in Kutch, Jodhpore, 

 Deccan, Kattiawar and North Guzerat. 



Sub-Family, RUTICILLIN^,— Eedstarts. 



Bill slender with tip entire, rictal bristles fairly developed ; Avings 

 and tail various ; tarsi long, slender. 



Gen. Ruticilla. — BreJtm. 



Bill leather short, broad at base ; nostrils in a membranous groove ; 

 wings long and rounded; 5th and 6th quills longest. 



Ruticilla rufiventris, Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 137, No. 497; Gray, 

 Handlist B. i. p. 221; Blavf. East. Persia, ii. p. 163; Murray, Hdbk., 



