118 FURTHER ADDITIONS TO THE SINDH AVIFAUNA. 



" Female. — The female has the upper part of the head and 

 the hind neck dull brownish red ; the black of the back tinged 

 with brown ; the rump brownish grey, transversely barred with 

 brown ; the wings and tail brownish black, with the white 

 markings less extended and tinged with brown ; the band 

 on the side of the head is brown ; and the lower parts are 

 greyish white ; the sides tinged with brown ; the fore-neck and 

 breast marked with faint semi-circular brown lines, of which 

 there are two on each feather." 



Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser say : — 



" Female. — Similar to the male, but has all the colours less 

 bright, and the forehead, and the parts generally of the 

 body which in the male are black, dull blackish brown with 

 an admixture of rufous. 



Young. — Brown above, inclining to rufous on the head and 

 back, transversely barred with ochre a*id black vermicula- 

 tions ; scapularies and rump paler and more fulvous ; the bars 

 broader ; wing-coverts black, broadly edged with rafous and 

 washed, especially on the least coverts, with ochre ; tail brown- 

 ish black ; the middle feathers tipped with rufous, the others 

 with fulvous white, especially on the outermost, which has a 

 little black only on the inner web ; underneath fulvous, thickly 

 barred over the whole body with narrow brown vermicula- 

 tions ; chin and under wing-coverts white ; under tail-coverts 

 rather deep fulvous." 



490 ter. — Saxicola leucomela, Pall. 



It will be remembered that in their monograph of the genua 

 Saxicola, P. Z. S., 1874, 225, Messrs. Blanford and Dresser 

 somewhat doubtfully identified Saxicola capistrata, Gould, B 

 of A., Pt. XVII., pi. 9, with leucomela of Pallas. The objec- 

 tions to this seemed to be that this species (leucomela) was 

 not known to occur in India, whereas the bird identified 

 by them as 8. morio was common in the upper parts of the 

 Punjab and Afghanistan, and that on the whole, though the 

 color of the under tail-coverts, as represented by Mr. Gould, 

 was rather more yellow than is ever seen in morio, the 

 plate suits this latter species better than leucomela, especi- 

 ally in absolutely wanting the narrow white tips to the secon- 

 daries which are always present in leucomela. 



Referring back to Mr. Gould's remarks, I gather that he must 

 have figured specimens from Sindh. He says : — 



" Among the MS. notes on Indian birds by the late Captain 

 Boys, I find the following in reference to the present species." 



Now, if Mr. Gould had not had Captain Boys' specimens be- 

 fore him, he could not have knowu to what species Boys was 



