202 ; SAXICOLINA, 
II, p. 180; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 475 ; 
Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 144; Swinhoe and 
Barnes, Central India; Ibis, p. 125. 
THE INDIAN WHITE-TAILED STONECHAT. 
Length, 6°5 ; expanse, 10°75 ; wing, 3°75; tail, 2°75 ; tarsus, 0°9 ; 
bill at front, 0°5 ; bill at gape, 0°75. 
Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 
Sooty-black; the thigh-coverts, lower abdomen, vent, and 
under tail-coverts white, and the greater part of the tail also 
white ; the lateral feathers tipped with black for not quite half 
an inch, the middle feathers for about half an inch. 
The female is said to be of a duller and browner hue. 
The White-tailed Stonechat occurs sparingly in Sind and 
Northern Guzerat, more commonly near Mhow in Central India, 
and at Neemuch in Western Rajpootana. It is a winter visitant 
only. It isdoubtful whether the bird has been found in the 
Deccan. 
Saxicola picatus, Blyth. 
489.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 131; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 475; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 142. 
THE PIED STONECHAT. 
Length, 6:5; expanse, 11°25; wing, 3°75; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 
09; bill at front, 0°5; bill at gape, 0°75. 
Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 
Whole head, neck, and upper breast, back, and wings, black ; 
the rump, upper tail-coverts, and all the lower parts from the 
breast white; tail white, except the terminal two-thirds of the 
two central feathers, and the tips of the others, which are 
black. 
The Pied Stonechat is a common winter visitant to Sind 
and Guzerat, but it is much less common at Mhow and Neemuch, 
and has not been recorded from the Deccan. 
I found it breeding in the vicinity of Chaman, South 
Afghanistan. 
Saxicola alboniger, Hume. 
489bis—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 142. 
Hume’s PIED STONECHAT. 
Length, 6°5 to 7°75 ; wing, 3°8 to 4°25; tail, 2°75 to 3; tarsus, 
1 to 1:1; bill at front, 0°56 to 0°65. 
Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 
Head, neck, upper back, and throat black; quills dark brown; 
under wing-coverts and axillaries black ; tail white, with a broad 
terminal band of dark-brown, broader on the two central feathers ; 
lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, breast, belly and under 
tail-coverts white. 
