204 SAXICOLIN.E. 



tail-coverts white, and a white supercilium ; lores and eye-streak 

 black ; wings dusky, edged with brown ; tail with the two central 

 feathers black for the terminal two-thirds, the rest white, the 

 outer feathers black tipped ; under surface pale rusty-brown, 

 albescent on the belly and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 blackish with white edgings. 



The female is ashy-brown above, wings dusky-brown, tail 

 black-tipped. 



In winter the feathers are broadly edged with rufous, most 

 conspicuous on the wing-coverts and tertiaries. 



The Wheatear is a common winter visitant to Sind, Guzerat, 

 and Rajputana, but is very rare in the Deccan. 



Saxicola tringi, Hume. 



ASllis. Saxicola chrysopygia, De Fil. Murray's Vertebrate 



Zoology of Sind, p. 145; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, 



Vol. Ill, p. 476. 



THE BED-TAILED WHEATEAR, 



Length, 6'2 to 6'5 ; expanse, 10 to 11/3 ; wing, 37 to 4'4 ; 

 tail, 2'2 to 2-4 ; tarsus, 1 ; bill at front, 0'55 to 0'6. 



Bill black ; hides dark-brown ; legs black. 



A dark grey line from the gape to and under the eye ; a broad, 

 slightly greyish-white line from the nostrils over the eye, much 

 more conspicuous in some specimens than in others ; ear-coverts 

 silky rufescent-brown ; forehead greyish-brown ; crown, occiput, 

 nape, back and scapulars, nearly uniform grey earthy-brown, as 

 a rule only very slightly tinged with rufescent towards the rump ; 

 but in some specimens more strongly so ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts bright rufous-fawn, in some specimens pale rufous-buff ; 

 tail-feathers bright, in some pale ferruginous, with a sub-terminal 

 blackish-brown band extending over both webs, and a narrow 

 tipping of rufous-white jets in at the shafts for about the tenth 

 of an inch ; occasionally on the lateral feathers, the black bar is 

 more or less imperfect, the dark band is from 1*1 to 1'4 broad on 

 the central feathers, by about 0'6 or 0'8 on the feathers next the 

 centre, and 0'4 to 0'6 on the external ones. The tertiaries and 

 most of the coverts are hair-brown, broadly margined with pale 

 rufescent ; the winglet, primaries, and secondaries, and primary 

 greater-coverts are slightly darker hair-brown, very narrowly 

 tipped with white, and some of them, the secondaries especially, 

 very narrowly margined with pale rufescent ; the chin and upper 

 throat white, with a faint creamy tinge ; the sides of the neck, 

 behind and below the ear-coverts, grey, greyish-white and greyish- 

 brown, blending on the one side into the color of the throat, and 

 on the other into that of the back of the neck ; the breast and 

 upper abdomen are a very pale rufescent-brown, all the tips of 

 the feathers being paler ; the centre of the abdomen and vent 

 slightly rufescent- white ; flanks rufescent-fawn ; lower tail-coverts 

 a somewhat pale buff ; wing-lining and -axillaries pure white. 



