158 Oti some Indian ]fJieatears. [Ibis, 



S. Arabica, whole of Persia and Baluchistan, and some may 

 even winter in Turkestan. 



CS. oreopldla evidently breeds later than atrogularis, as 

 would be expected ; the latter has young on the wing by 

 mid-May and the adults are fully moulted by mid-July ; 

 whereas in oreopldla young are not on the wing till the end 

 of Jul}' and the adults have not fully moulted till the end of 

 August. 



The name alhifrons for the bird I have called atrogularis 

 has been introduced in recent years in some works (' Hand- 

 list of British Birds'; B. o!! U. List, 1915; 'Practical 

 Handbook of British Birds,^ etc.), but quite incorrectly as 

 it is clearly preoccupied (Ruppell, N. Wirbelt. 1837, p. 78). 

 It is a great pity that such names which have never been 

 widely used should have been allowed to creep into authori- 

 tative nomenclatural lists without very careful checking. 



The Desert Wheatears will then stand as follows : — 



G^nanthe deserti des rti (Tomm.), PI. Col. 359, fig. 2, 



1825, Egypt, Nubia, Arabia. 

 CEnantlie deserti liomoehroa (Tristr.), Ibis, 1859, p. 59. 



Sahara east to Wadi Natrun in Lower Egypt. 

 (Enaitthe deserti atrof/idaris (Blyth), J. A. S. B. xvi. 



1847, p. 131. S.W. Asia east to British Baluchistan, 



Russian and Chinese Turkestan. 

 CEnanthe deserti oreophila (Oberh.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



xxii, 1901, p. 221. Tibet, Ladak, Baltistan {=montana 



of Gouldj. 



The two Indian Pied Wheatears will stand as follows : — 



(J^ynanthe picata (Blyth), J. A. S. B. xvi. 1847, p. 131. 

 E. Persia, Persian and British Baluchistan, N.W. 

 Frontier Province to Gilgit. 



(Enanthe capistrata (Gould), B. of Asia, iv. 18G5, pi. 2^. 

 N.W. Frontier Province, East Afghanistan to Samar- 

 kand. 



