SAXICOLINiE. 205 



The Red-tailed Wheatear occurs sparingly as a winter visitant 

 to Sind, and has also been recorded from the base of Mount Aboo 



Saxicola deserti, Ruppell. 



492. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 132 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 476 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 



IX, p. 405 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 144 ; 



Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 125. 



THE BLACK-THROATED WHEATEAR. 



: Length, 6'5 to 7 ; expanse, 10'5 to 11 ; wing, 3 75 ; tail, 2*5 ; 

 tarsus, 0'85 to 1 ; bill at gape, 075 ; bill at front, 0'48. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 



Above pale isabelline, greyish on the crown and nape, and a 

 whitish eyebrow; rump and upper tail-coverts buffy- white ; tail 

 white at base, the rest black ; chin, throat, lores, and ears, pure 

 black, extending down the sides of the neck to the shoulder ; 

 wing black, with a white patch on the bend of the wing ; beneath 

 pale isabelline, the lower tail-coverts buffy-white. 



The Black -throated Wheatear occurs in the same localities as 

 S. isabellinus, but is perhaps rather more common. 



.ZEion familiaris, Mene. 



492er. Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 476 ; 

 Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 163 ; (Sylvia fami- 

 liaris). 



THE GREY-BACKED WARBLER. 



Length, 6'5 to 7'5 ; expanse, 975 to 1075 ; wing, 3'3 to 3'5 ; 

 tail, 2'62 ; tarsus, 1 ; bill at front, O'S ; bill from gape, 0*9 to 

 0-95. 



Bill, upper mandible and tip of lower a somewhat fleshy but 

 dusky-brown ; rest of lower mandible and base yellowish-fleshy ; 

 irides dark brown ; legs and feet dusky or livid-fleshy. 



A broad superciliary stripe, from the nostrils, over the eye& 

 and some little distance behind the eyes, dull white or yellowish- 

 white ; a brown stripe from the nostrils to the anterior angle of 

 the eye, continued backwards, though not conspicuous, for some 

 distance from the posterior angle ; forehead, crown, occiput, sides 

 of neck, entire back and wings dull earthy-brown, paler and more 

 drabby in some ; quills and coverts margined and narrowly 

 tipped with dull yellowish or brownish-white, with usually a 

 slight rufescent tinge on the margins of the primaries ; rump 

 brownish-chesnut ; upper tail-coverts and tail chesnut ; central 

 tail-feathers more or less brown on one or both webs ; all the 

 other tail-feathers, with a conspicuous subterminal dark-brown 

 band (which in the outer feathers runs some distance down the 

 outer web), and tipped, the two pairs next the centre narrowly 

 with rufescent, and the other three successively more and more 

 broadly with pure white ; chin and throat sordid- white with an 



