204 SAXICOLINZ. 
tail-coverts white, and a white superciliam ; lores and eye-streak 
black ; wings dusky, edged with brown ; tail with the two central 
feathers black for the terminal two-thirds, the rest white, the 
outer feathers black tipped ; under surface pale rusty-brown, 
albescent on the belly and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 
blackish with white edgings. 
The female is ashy-brown above, wings dusky-brown, tail 
black-tipped. 
In winter the feathers are broadly edged with rufous, most 
conspicuous on the wing-coverts and tertiaries. 
The Wheatear is a common winter visitant to Sind, Guzerat, 
and Rajputana, but is very rare in the Deccan. 
Saxicola tringi, Hume. 
49 1bis—Saxicola chrysopygia, De Fil—Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 145; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, 
Vol. ILI, p. 476. 
THE RED-TAILED WHEATEAR. 
Length, 62 to 65; expanse, 10 to 113; wing, 3°7 to 44; 
tail, 2°2 to 2-4; tarsus, 1 ; bill at front, 0°55 to 0°6. 
Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 
A dark grey line from the gape to and under the eye ; a broad, 
slightly greyish-white line from the nostrils over the eye, much 
more conspicuous in some specimens than in others; ear-coverts 
silky rufescent-brown ; forehead greyish-brown ; crown, occiput, 
nape, back and scapulars, nearly uniform grey earthy-brown, as 
a rule only very slightly tinged with rufescent towards the rump ; 
but in some specimens more strongly so; rump and upper tail- 
coverts bright rufous-fawn, in some specimens pale rufous-buff ; 
tail-feathers bright, in some pale ferruginous, with a sub-terminal 
blackish-brown band extending over both webs, and a narrow 
tipping of rufous-white jets in at the shafts for about the tenth 
of an inch; occasionally on the lateral feathers, the black bar is 
more or less imperfect, the dark band is from 1:1 to 1-4 broad on 
the central feathers, by about 0°6 or 0°8 on the feathers next the 
centre, and 0°4 to 0°6 on the external ones. The tertiaries and 
most of the coverts are hair-brown, broadly margined with pale 
rufescent ; the winglet, primaries, and secondaries, and primary 
greater-coverts are slightly darker hair-brown, very narrowly 
tipped with white, and some of them, the secondaries especially, 
very narrowly margined with pale rufescent ; the chin and upper 
throat white, with a faint creamy tinge ; the sides of the neck, 
behind and below the ear-coverts, grey, greyish-white and greyish- 
brown, blending on the one side into the color of the throat, and 
on the other into that of the back of the neck ; the breast and 
upper abdomen are a very pale rufescent-brown, all the tips of 
the feathers being paler ; the centre of the abdomen and vent 
slightly rufescent-white ; flanks rufescent-fawn ; lower tail-coverts 
a somewhat pale buff ; wing-lining and axillaries pure white. 
