1922.] Birds of Jhana District. 305 



according to wear, with creamy buff; a narrow white super- 

 cilium from the nostril to the end of the ear-coverts ; the sides 

 ot" the head and the sides o£ the throat in a \\ ell-defined line, 

 black; centre of chin and throat, and upper breast pure shining 

 white; remainder ol: lower surface creamy buti', warmest in 

 tint on the breast and sullied throughout by the blackish 

 bases of the feathers; wings and tail as in winter plumage, 

 but more unicoloroiis owinir to the wearino-otF of the fringes, 

 the white shoulder-patch becoming very nuirked. 



The adult female in summer plumage is not represented in 

 series, but from birds seen and not obtained it is probable that 

 there is not much difference in this sex between siinuuer and 

 winter plumage. 



In any stage of plumage, even when tlie white of the 

 tail is wanting, this bird is distinguished from the female 

 ot S. torquata indica by the length and Ijreadih of the bill, 

 by the colour ot the under parts, and by the paler, purer 

 brown of the tail-feathers. 



Saxicola torquata indica (Blyth). (8 skins.) 



The Stoneehat is a passage migrant in fair numbers through 

 the district aljout Maich anil the first half of April and again 

 in September. In addition, it is to be found generally dis- 

 tributed in small numbers as a winter visitor. 



Saxicola leucura (Blyth). (6 skins.) 



This species wastirst [)rocured in the district at Dab Kalan 

 by Dr. (*. B. Ticehurst, who secured five specimens on 21 and 

 25 December, 1918. These birds were obtained in a patch of 

 tamarisk and "Pampas grass" lying between cultivation and 

 a pool of water in one of the channel-beds of the river. On 

 1 January following I secured the male from a pair in 

 tamarisk scrub at the edge of fields of vetch and wheat just 

 across the liver at Ahmedpur. 



The species was also met with in small numbers about the 

 reed-beds of the Nurpur escape in January and February. 

 It probably occurs as a resident species all along the river- 

 bed of the Clienab, Init I was unable to verify this owing 



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