240 NOTES ON SOME OF OUR INDIAN STONE CHATS. 



He obtained his in the Salt Range Trans-Jheluui. I shot 

 my specimens near Goorgaon, and at Bhuttoo, Durbee and 

 other places in the Sirsa district, all Cis-Sutlej. 



The following are dimensions, &c, of a pair measured in the 



flesh, which I shot at Bhuttoo on the 25th November 1867 : — 



<J. — Length, 6*0; expanse, 975; tail, 2-12 ; wing, 3'0 ; 



tarsus, 07; bill from frontal bone, 0*7; from gape, 0*75. 



? . —Length, 5-5; Expanse, 912 ; Tail, 2-0 ; Wing, 2*9 j 



Tarsus, 0"93 ; Bill from frontal bone, 0'66 ; from gape, 07. 



g . — Exposed portion of 1st primary 077 long, 0'14 broad; 

 2nd primary 033 shorter than 3rd, and=7th. 



$ . — Exposed portion of 1st primary 075 long, 0*16 broad ; 

 2nd primary 0'28 shorter than 3rd, and slightly larger than 7th. 

 In both the 3rd, 4th, and 5th quills are equal and longest. 

 The male has mid toe and claw 075 ; outer toe and claw 

 056 ; inner toe and claw 0*52 ; hind toe and claw 07. In both 

 sexes the legs, feet and bill were black, (the bill has now faded 

 to brown,) and irides brown. 



The male has a broad stripe from the nostrils over the eyes 

 and over the greater portion of the ear-coverts, white, with a 

 slight buffy tinge. The lower part of the lores, dusky. 



Chin, throat and entire lower parts, including lower tail- 

 coverts and tibial plumes, white, with a yellowish tinge, and a 

 very feeble rufescent tinge on breast and flanks. 



Wing-lining and axillaries, pure white, the former slightly 

 mottled with dusky. 



Forehead, crown, occiput, nape, back, and scapulars, light 

 sandy buff, striated longitudinally with hair brown. 



Rump and upper tail-coverts, white, most of the feathers 

 tinged towards their tips with pale rusty buff. 



Primaries and secondaries, hair brown, margined on the outer 

 webs with light buff and tipped with yellowish white, the 

 primaries more narrowly, the secondaries more broadly. 

 Tertiary greater coverts, or perhaps I should call them lower 

 scapulars, pure white. 



Tertiaries and greater and median secondary coverts, deep 

 brown, broadly margined with pale, more or less rufescent buff. 

 Entire visible portion of lesser coverts, pale sandy buff. Edge 

 of wing and outer w 7 ebs of earlier greater primary coverts, 

 pure white. 



Tail, hair brown : all the feathers margined on the outer webs 

 and the central ones on both webs, with sandy buff or light 

 yellowish brown — the outer web of the outermost feather 

 almost entirely of this colour. 



All the feathers, except the central pair, with almost the entire 

 inner webs, white. The outermost pair have an irregular 



