474 ORNITHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN SIKHIM, 



489.— Saxicola picatus, Blyth. 



Mooltan, Sukhur and Sehwan. It is the commonest Chat 

 of the country ; and at Sukhur one lived in the verandah of the 

 dak bungalow, and I was amused to see him nodding his head 

 and wagging his tail, at my bird-skinner who sat at work two 

 or three yards below the Chat : whether the sight of fresh 

 meat pleased him, or he was protesting against the barbarous 

 operation, no one knows. I remember at Etawah, when I 

 threw away some small birds' bodies that one or two small 

 sylviue birds used to eat them. My fowls here, however, did 

 better, — they picked the body of a good-sized hawk pretty 

 clean. 



491.— Saxicola isabelliniis, BUpp. 



I saw this bird near Mooltan. 



491.— Saxicola kingi, Rume. 



Two were shot at Sehwan. 



492. — Saxicola deserti, Bilpp. 



I procured a very fine male in perfect plumage, with as 

 black a throat as could be, at Sehwan in January. 



497.--Ruticilla rufiventris, Vieill. 



Common in the Panjab, aad also at Sukhur in the large 

 Babool wood. 



503.— Ruticilla frontalis, Vig. 



Very common at Darjeeling, even when there is hard frost. 



505.— Rhyacornis fuliginosus, Vig. 



I saw this on the canal near Saharunpore. 



506.— Ohimarrornis leucocephalus, Vig. 



Above Kurseong in December. 



507.— Larvivora superciliaris, Jerd. 



I obtained one this year at Muddapur in the plains. 



508.— Nemura cyanura, Fall. 



Not uncommon about Darjeeling. This bird conceals itself 

 very much. It answered the owl's-call very well. 



511.— Tarsiger chryseus, Hodgs. 



Affects dense bush jungle near Darjeeling. It came to the 

 owl's call. 



