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the thick Bankside jungle (undergrowth) at head of Kagjhora. I 
shall pass over, the next few species, although the temptation is to 
halt, a few minutes to examine some of these Robins, ete., but we 
must turn our attention to species, more easily found on our hill 
sides ; so we will take up in preference. 
(486) PRATINCOLA FERREA, Dark Grey Bush-chat, which is one of 
our more familiar Darjeeling birds. This chat is friendly and fairly 
tame, when met with, usually outside of denser brushwood cover, 
in which it prefers to spend no small portion of the day, occasionally 
by the side of one or other of the small hill-streams. You will some- 
times find it quietly resting on road palings. At times, it is seen, 
on telephone or electric-light wires, from which perch it makes short 
sallies after insects on the wing, which it secures, much like in 
manner of a flycatcher and usually returns to the same perch, as do 
Muscicapide, so that care must be taken not to mistake it for one of 
the species of flycatchers. Dark Grey Bush-chat has a longer tarsus, 
consequently is able to stand more erect, in Redstart fashion. In 
size it is 5? inches; bill black ; irides brown. Male is dark ashy grey, 
feathers streaked with black ; colour is fader towards the tail ;a 
white supercilium (behind the eyes) shows prominently out against 
the black lores (space in front of the eyes) and ear-coverts ; beneath, 
breast and lower parts of the body are white, witha brownish tinge ; 
throat whitish ; tail above black with narrow white edgings to the 
feathers, outer tail feathers are whiter in appearance ; wings dusky 
with a white wing patch only observed when the bird is flying or 
fluttering about the branches. Female is brown, above, with tints 
of ferruginous. 
GENUS SAXICOLA, are of two types of colours, first pied; the 
second, Wheatear, of high altitudes showing more white plumage. 
Bill of Saxicola is slender, straight, compressed, having a blunt 
notch, rictals undeveloped and feeble ; wings longish and pointed 3rd, 
4th and 5th quills the longest. 
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(490) SAXICOLA LEUCOMELA, /Vhite-headed Stone-Chat, though 
scarcely a Darjeeling bird, as it is rarely seen here. Several oppor- 
tunities will be had of observing it at and around Tongloo, to which 
altitude it retires to breed. In size it is 64 inches. In general ap- 
pearance, a mixture of black and white ; above, neck and breast is 
black ; upper tail coverts white ; breast and crown of the head white 
with a greyish tinge ; tail black with distributions of white. In 
May you will have comparatively little trouble, in seeing the mother 
bird attending to her brood of diminutive little ones, tormenting her 
with their noisy cries, and much flapping and fluttering of wings, 
months opened to their utmost extent insisting on the next morsel 
she has just been fortunate enough to secure, all seem to have claims 
