SAXICOLIN.E. 203 



Hume's Pied Stonechat is a winter visitant to Sind, but 

 occurs nowhere else within our limits. 



Saxicola morio, Hemp 8f Ehr. 



490. Saxicola leucomela, Pallas. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. 

 II, p. 181 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 143. 



THE WHITE-HEADED STONECHAT. 



Length, 6'5 ; wing, 3'6 to 3'9 ; tail, 2'25 to 275 ; tarsus, 0'85 

 to 1 ; bill at front, 0'6 to 07. 



Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 



Crown on the head greyish- white ; the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts, and all the lower parts, from the top of the breast, 

 white ; rest of the upper parts, neck, and breast, black ; tail 

 black, with the base of the central feathers, and all the lateral 

 ones, white ; the outermost tipped with black, and part of the 

 outer web also black. 



Young birds have the white cap more or less tinged with dingy 

 greyish-brown. 



The White-headed Stonechat is a winter visitant to Sind ; it 

 does not occur elsewhere within our limits. 



Saxicola monachus, Rupp. 



4906is. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 143. 

 THE HOODED STONECHAT. 



Length, 7 to 7'25 ; wing, 4 to 4'42 ; tail, 275 ; tarsus, 0'9 ; 

 bill at front, 0'62. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 



General color black ; quills dark-brown, paler on under sur- 

 face ; head, nape, upper and lower tail-coverts, belly, and flanks, 

 white ; tail white, except the terminal half of the two central 

 feathers, and the tips of the others, which are very dark-brown. 



The female is similar to the male but browner, and the white 

 parts are tinged with buff. 



The Hooded Stonechat occurs as a winter visitant to Sind. 



It has not been recorded from any other portion of the region. 



Saxicola isabellina, Rupp. 



491. Saxicola cenantke, Linn. Jerdon's Birds of India, 

 Vol. II, p. 132 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, 

 p. 475 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 404 ; Murray's 

 Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 146 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, 

 Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 125. 



THE WHEATEAK. 



Length, 6*5 to 7 ; expanse, 11 to 12 ; wing, 375 to 4 ; tail, 

 2-5 to 2-75 ; tarsus, 11 ; bill at front, 0'45 to 0'5 ; bill at gape 

 075 to 0-8. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 



Male, above ashy with a brown tinge ; the rump and upper 



