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BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



webs of the feathers being blackish ; under parts white, on the 

 lower throat, breast, and flanks washed with bright yellow, the 

 vent and under tail-coverts being entirely yellow ; throat, 

 breast, and flanks more or less distinctly streaked with blackish 

 brown. 



Young Male. — -Closely resembles the female, but is only a 

 little more yellow in tinge of plumage, — Dresser, " Birds of 

 Europe."" 



492 fo's.— Saxicola hendersoni, Hume. (For breed- 

 ing plu., vide S. F., II., 526.) 



Description. — The bill, legs and feet are black. 



Plumage. — Male. — The lores, a narrow band on the fore- 

 head, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, upper portion of breast 

 and sides of neck black — a colour that in winter plumage 

 would doubtless be more or Jess concealed by pale tips to the 

 feathers, which are already beginning to show themselves in 

 the specimens killed early in September. A narrow band from 

 the forehead over the eye and ear-coverts fawny white ; front, 

 top and back of the head, and back of the neck grey brown ; 

 possibly in full breeding plumage these parts may be white, 

 because on lifting the feathers the medial portion of each feather 

 is shown to be white, the tips only brown, the bases dusky. 

 In the specimen which has assumed least of the winter dress, 

 the medial white portion is far broader and more conspicuous 

 than in other specimens further advanced towards the winter 

 plumage. 



Wings, scapulars, interscapulary region, black, probably in 

 full breeding plumage nearly pure black ; but in the September 

 specimens all the feathers of the back are so tipped with rufoua 



