3 Novelties. — Ftionojn-ogne Pallida. 



The sexes do not differ materially in size^, though individuals 

 differ in each sex considerably. The males^ (seven of each sex 

 were preserved) J varied in length from 5"35 to 5 '6 inches; ex- 

 panse, 12'25 to 13 inches; wing, 4"4 to 4'7 inches. In the 

 females^ the length varied from 5'25 to 5'5 inches; expanse, 12"3 

 inches; wing 4'5 to 4* 75 inches. In both sexes the tail measures 

 about 1'8 inch from vent. The wings, when closed, exceed the 

 tail by a little more than 0'5 inch, and the weight was a trifle 

 over U"5 oz. 



Description. — Bill black ; legs and feet horny brown. The whole 

 upper surface, a very pale greyish earthy brown, very much paler 

 than the same parts in either P. Rupestiis, or Coiyle Sinensis : 

 the quills only slightly darker, yet sufficiently so to contrast 

 pretty markedly with the scapulars, back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts : the lateral tail feathers, all but the external feather on 

 each side, with a large oval white spot on the inner web, as in 

 Riipestris, and with dark shafts, and a darker tint on the web 

 near the shaft as in that latter species. Lower surface as in 

 liupestris, but much paler ; the whole of the chin, throat, breast, 

 and abdomen being white with only a faint fulvous or rufous 

 tinge, and the wing lining and lower tail coverts, which in 

 Mufiestris are a decided dark brown, are in this species the same 

 pale earthy grey brown as the upper surface. 



No specimen of the true Mupestris that I have seen has the 

 wing less than 5 inches and some have it full 5'5 inches. Jerdon 

 indeed gives it at 5*75 inches ; but this, I think, is greatly above 

 average. The true Ihtpestris, of which I saw no specimen in Sindh, 

 occurs a little further east in Kutch, whence I have a specimen 

 with the wing 5*2 inches, exactly similar to other specimens 

 from Simla, and Khandala, and to European birds. 



la^icolfi gllknipr^ Sp. Nov. 



Very similar to 8. Picata, (BlytliJ hut larger ; the hlack not extending on 

 to the breast as m this latter, and with the white extending further up 

 the back. Sexes alike, but male considerably larger. Male's length, 

 7'5 inches; wing, 4!'25 wiclies ; bill at front, 0'6b inch. 



Another species new to our Indian Avifauna is Saxicola 3Io- 

 naclia, lliipp. — [Gracilis : Licht. PI. Col. 359) — which is not 

 uucommou in, and immediately at the foot of, the stony hills 

 which divide Kelat from Sindh and in the similar hills that run 

 along the Mekran Coast. In the plains of Sindh this species 



