SAXICOLINZE. 201 
Pratincola macrorhyncha, Stol. 
485bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 188. 
STOLICKZA’s BUSHCHAT. 
Length, 6; wing, 3; tail, 2:12 ; tarsus, 0:93; bill at front, 0°7. 
Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 
Adult male: a broad stripe over the eyes and over the greater 
portion of the ear-coverts white, with a slight buffy tinge; 
lower parts of the lores dusky; chin, throat, and entire lower 
parts, including lower tail-coverts and tibial plumes, white with 
a yellowish tinge and a very feeble rufescent tinge on breast 
and flanks ; wing-lining and axillaries pure white, the former 
slightly mottled with dusky; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, 
back and scapulars light sandy-buff, striated longitudinally 
with hair-brown; rump and upper tail-coverts white, most of 
the feathers tinged towards their tip with pale rusty-buff; 
primaries and secondaries hair-brown, margined on the outer 
webs with light buff and tipped with yellowish-white, the 
primaries more narrowly, the secondaries more broadly; tertiary 
greater-coverts, or perhaps they should be called lower-scapulars, 
white; tertiaries and greater and median secondary-coverts deep 
brown, broadly margined with pale, more or less refuscent buff ; 
entire visible portion of lesser-coverts pale sandy-buff; edge 
of wing and outer webs of earlier greater primary-coverts pure 
white ; tail hair-brown, all the feathers margined on the outer 
webs with sandy-buff or light yellowish-brown; the outer web 
of the outermost feather almost entirely of this color; all the 
feathers, except the central pair, with almost the entire inner 
webs, white, the outermost pair have an irregular subterminal 
brown band from 0-2 to 0°3 inch wide on this web, but the rest 
have only a small patch of brown wear the shaft close to the tip, 
the pair next the centre have the patch rather larger; there 
are traces of a dark streak from the base of the lower mandible 
down either sides of the throat, expanding on the sides of the 
breast ; doubtless in breeding plumage this streak and patch 
are black or blackish. 
The female is rather smaller and shows the dark streak and 
patch much less. 
Occurs in Sind, but is not common. 
Genus, Saxicola, Bechst. 
Bill moderate, straight and compressed, slender, very slightly 
inflected, with a blunt notch ; nostrils apert; rictal bristles feeble 
or wanting ; wing moderately long, pointed; the first short, second 
half an inch shorter than the third, fourth and fifth, which are 
equal and longest ; tail moderate, even, or very slightly rounded ; 
tarsus long and strong; feet moderate. 
Saxicola opistholeuca, Sérick. | 
488,.—Suaaicola lewcoroides, Guerin.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
