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492— Saxicola deserti, Biipp. The Black-throated 

 Wheatear. 



Cold weather visitant. The same remarks apply to this spe- 

 cies as to the last. 



497.— Ruticilla rufiventris, Vieill. The Indian Red- 

 start. 



Cold weather visitant. Tolerably common throughout the 

 region, avoiding, as a rule, the forest tracts. 



507. — Larvivora superciliaris, Jerd. The Blue Wood- 

 chat. 



Cold weather visitant. Not common. Mr. Fairbank got it 

 at Mahableshwar and along the Goa frontier in damp deep 

 shade, and Messrs. Davidson and Wendenin their list of Deccan 

 species remark," moderately common during the rains and cold 

 weather.'" Mr. Vidal records it from Grotna in the Sangamesh- 

 war sub-division of Ratnagiri, and Mr. Laird got it in the forests 

 south-west of Belgaum. I also obtained a single specimen in 

 the Fort of Belgaum. 



? 512.— Calliope camtschatkensis, Gm. The Com- 

 mon Buby-Throat. 



Jerdon mentions having once seen a specimen that had taken 

 refuge on board ship, a little south of Bombay, in the month 

 of November. 



514.— Cyanecula suecica, Lin. The Bed-spot Blue- 

 throat. 



Cold weather visitant. Locally not uncommon, throughout 

 the region, affecting swampy ground. In the rice-fields about 

 Belgaum it is particularly common. 



515.— Acrocephalus stentorius, Hemp. & Mr. 

 The Large Beed Warbler. 



Cold weather visitant. Bare. Affects reed-beds, sugar- 

 cane fields, and standing crops. Mr. Fairbank procured it at 

 Nagar, and Mr. Vidal obtained a single specimen in Ratnagiri 

 at Khed. I also shot a few specimens about Belgaum. 



516.— Acrocephalus dumetorum, Blyth. The Lesser 

 Beed Warbler. 



Cold weather visitant. Tolerably common throughout the 

 region. 



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