4 TURDID/E. 



Length. 7 to 7*25 inches; wing 4 to 4-42 ; tail from vent 275; tarsus 0*9 , 

 bill at front 0-62. 



Adult Female. General colour very similar to the male, but browner, and 

 the white parts suffused or tinged with buffy, 



Hab. Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine ; wintering 

 in Sind. Said to be resident in Persia and Egypt. 



410. SaxiCOla moriO, Hemp, et Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol, a. a. ; Dresser, 

 JB. Eur. pt. xxvii. (1874 partim) ; Dresser and Blf. Ibis 1874, p. 338; 

 Blf. East. Pers. ii. p. 152; Ward I. Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 55; Seebohm, 

 Cat. Birds Br. Mus. p. 372. Saxicola leucomela (Pall), Tern. Man. d'Orn. i. 

 p. 243 ; Gould. B. Eur. ii. pi, 89 ; Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 178; Bp. Consp. i. 

 303 ; Severtz. Sir. F. 1875, P- 4^9- Saxicola hendersoni, Hume, Ibis, 1871, 

 p. 408 ; Hume and Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 206, pi. xiii. The 

 WHITE-HEADED STONE CHAT. 



Adult Male. General colour black ; quills dark brown, paler on the under 

 side ; head, nape, hind neck, rump, upper and lower tail coverts, breast, 

 flanks, and belly, white ; the head and nape tinged greyish ; tail white, the 

 two centre feathers black for the terminal half, and the others tipped black 

 from a quarter to half an inch ; bill and legs black j irides brown. 



Length. Wing 3-9 103-6 inches (Female 3-6 to 3-45); tail 2-66102-25, 

 culmen 07 to 0-6; tarsus ro to 0'8$.(See&ohm.') Female, like the male, 

 but the upper parts earthy brown. 



Hab. Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Cashmere, Palestine, and 

 Egypt. Winters in Sind, Arabia, and Abyssinia ; and breeds (according to 

 Seebohm) in Cyprus, Crimea, Caucasus, Persia, Afghanistan and Turkistan ; 

 also in Western Thibet, Mongolia, Siberia, and N. W. China. 



411. SaxiCOla Opistholeuca, (Strickl.\ Jard. Contr. Orn. 1849, 

 p. 60; Blyth* Cat. B. Mus. A. S. p. 167; Gray, Handlist B. i. p. 226; 

 Blanf. and Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 229; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vol. v. p. 376. Saxicola leucura, Gmel. apud. Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 131. 

 Saxicola leucoroides, Guer. apud. Jerd. B. Ind. p. 130. Saxicola syenitica, 

 HeugL apud. Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65. Saxicola leucopygia {Brehm /^) 

 Dresser, Ibis 1875, p. 337 ; Str. F. vol. viii. p. 473 ; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, 

 &c., Sind, p. 146. The INDIAN WHITE-TAILED STONE CHAT, 



Entire head, neck, back, throat, breast, belly, wings, and under wing coverts 

 black ; quills dark brown ; rump, upper and under tail coverts, vent and tail 

 white ; the terminal half or a little more of the two central feathers of the tail, 

 and the tips of others from a quarter to half an inch deep, dark brown ; bill 

 and legs black ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 6-5 inches ; wing 375 ; tail 275 ; bill at front O'68. Female, 

 length 6'5 inches; wing 3-52; tail 2'6; tarsus 0-95 to 0-99. 



