SAXICOLIN.E. 201 



Pratincola macrorliyncha, Stol. 



s. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 138. 



STOLICKZA'S BUSHCHAT. 



Length, 6 ; wing, 3 ; tail, 212 ; tarsus, 0'93 ; bill at front, 07. 

 Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 



Adult male : a broad stripe over the eyes and over the greater 

 portion of the ear-coverts white, with a slight buffy tinge ; 

 lower parts of the lores dusky ; chin, throat, and entire lower 

 parts, including lower tail-coverts and tibial plumes, white with 

 a yellowish tinge and a very feeble rufescent tinge on breast 

 and flanks ; wing-lining and axillaries pure white, the former 

 slightly mottled with dusky; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, 

 back and scapulars light sandy-buff, striated longitudinally 

 with hair-brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, most of 

 the feathers tinged towards their tip with pale rusty-buff; 

 primaries and secondaries hair-brown, margined on the outer 

 webs with light buff and tipped with yellowish-white, the 

 primaries more narrowly, the secondaries more broadly ; tertiary 

 greater-coverts, or perhaps they should be called lower-scapulars, 

 white ; tertiaries and greater and median secondary-coverts deep 

 brown, broadly margined with pale, more or less refuscent buff ; 

 entire visible portion of lesser-coverts pale sandy-buff; edge 

 of wing and outer webs of earlier greater primary-coverts pure 

 white ; tail hair-brown, all the feathers margined on the outer 

 webs with sandy-buff or light yellowish-brown ; the outer web 

 of the outermost feather almost entirely of this color ; all the 

 feathers, except the central pair, with almost the entire inner 

 webs, white, the outermost pair have an irregular subterminal 

 brown band from 0'2 to 0'3 inch wide on this web, but the rest 

 have only a small patch of brown near the shaft close to the tip, 

 the pair next the centre have the patch rather larger; there 

 are traces of a dark streak from the base of the lower mandible 

 down either sides of the throat, expanding on the sides of the 

 breast ; doubtless in breeding plumage this streak and patch 

 are black or blackish. 



The female is rather smaller and shows the dark streak and 

 patch much less. 



Occurs in Sind, but is not common. 



GENUS, Saxicola, Bechst. 



Bill moderate, straight and compressed, slender, very slightly 

 inflected, with a blunt notch ; nostrils apert ; rictal bristles feeble 

 or wanting ; wing moderately long, pointed ; the first short, second 

 half an inch shorter than the third, fourth and fifth, which are 

 equal and longest ; tail moderate, even, or very slightly rounded ; 

 tarsus long and strong \ feet moderate. 



Saxicola opistholeuca, Stride. 



488. Suxicolaleiicoroides, Guerin. Jerdon's Birds of India, VoL 



