SAXICOLIN.A, 2038 
Hume’s Pied Stonechat is a winter visitant to Sind, but 
occurs nowhere else within our limits. 
Saxicola morio, Hemp & Lhr. 
490.—Saxicola lewcomela, Pallas—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
II, p. 181 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 143. 
THE WHITE-HEADED STONECHAT. 
Length, 6°5 ; wing, 3°6 to 39 ; tail, 2:25 to 2°75 ; tarsus, 0°85 
to 1; bill at front, 0°6 to 0°7. E 
Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 
Crown on the head greyish-white ; the rump and upper tail- 
coverts, and all the lower parts, from the top of the breast, 
white; rest of the upper parts, neck, and breast, black ; tail 
black, with the base of the central feathers, and all the lateral 
ones, white; the outermost tipped with black, and part of the 
outer web also black. 
Young birds have the white cap more or less tinged with dingy 
greyish-brown. 
The White-headed Stonechat is a winter visitant to Sind ; it 
does not occur elsewhere within our limits. 
Saxicola monachus, Rupp. 
490bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 143. 
THE HOODED STONECHAT. 
Length, 7 to 7:25; wing, 4 to 442; tail, 2°75 ; tarsus, 09; 
bill at front, 0°62. 
Bill black ; irides brown; legs black. 
General color black; quills dark-brown, paler on under sur- 
face ; head, nape, upper and lower tail-coverts, belly, and flanks, 
white ; tail white, except the terminal half of the two central 
feathers, and the tips of the others, which are very dark-brown. 
The female is similar to the male but browner, and the white 
parts are tinged with buff. 
The Hooded Stonechat occurs as a winter visitant to Sind. 
It has not been recorded from any other portion of the region. 
Saxicola isabellina, Rupp. 
491.—Saaxicola cnanthe, Linn—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. II, p. 132; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, 
p. 475; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 404; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 146; Swinhoe and Barnes, 
Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 125. 
THE WHEATEAR. 
Length, 65 to 7; expanse, 11 to 12; wing, 3°75 to 4; tail, 
2°5 to 2°75; tarsus, 11; bill at front, 0°45 to 0°5 ; bill at gape 
0°75 to 0°8. 
Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 
Male, above ashy with a brown tinge ; the rump and upper 
