246 MOTACILLIN^E. 



edged with fawn, the outermost nearly all of that color, the 

 penultimate tipped and edged only, and the remainder deep- 

 brown. 



During the cold season the Stone Pipit is not uncommon in 

 suitable localities throughout the district. It only occurs in open ; 

 stony, and barren places. 



Agrodroma similis, Jerd. 



603. A cinnamomea, Rupp. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 

 p. 235 ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 412. 



THE RUFOUS ROCK PIPIT. 



Length, 8 '2 5 ; wing, 3'8 ; tarsus, I'l. 



Bill dusky, paler at base beneath ; irides brown ; legs fleshy. 



Upper parts dusky olive-brown, the .feathers more or less 

 edged with pale ferruginous, deepest on the margins of the wing- 

 feathers ; beneath and superciliary stripe ferruginous, with nar- 

 row brown streaks on the foreneck and breast ; chin and throat 

 dull white ; tail with its outermost feathers dark, obliquely 

 tipped for its terminal third with ruddy- whitish, which extends 

 up the narrow outer web to near its base ; and the penultimate 

 feather is tipped for about one-quarter of an inch only with the 

 same. 



The occurrence of this Pipit within our limits is doubtful, a 

 single specimen only being recorded from the neighbourhood of 

 Ahmednagar. 



Agrodroma sordida, Rupp. 



604. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 236 ; A. jerdoni, 

 Finsch ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 491 ; 

 Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 412; Murray's Verte- 

 brate Zoology of Sind y p. 173 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 

 India; Ibis, 188 5, p. 127. 



THE BROWN ROCK PIPIT. 



Length, 7'5 to 8 ; expanse, 12 ; wing, 4 ; tail, 3*5 ; tarsus, 1*25 ; 

 bill at front, 07. 



Bill dusky, yellowish beneath, except at tip ; irides brown ; legs 

 yellowish. 



Very similar to the last ; colors duller, and not so rufous, being 

 of a dull earthy-brown, darker on the wings and tail, the feathers 

 edged paler ; a fawn colored superciliary stripe, and a faint brown 

 mandibular stripe ; beneath, the chin and throat whitish, and 

 the rest of the body rufescent-vinous or fawn color, with a few 

 indistinct brown blotches; central tail-feathers dark brown; 

 outer ditto rufescent. 



During the cold season the Brown Rock Pipit occurs sparingly 

 throughout the province. It is much addicted to frequenting 

 stony ravines and sandy plains, especially when covered with low 

 stunted bushes, upon which they often alight when disturbed 



