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back scarcely so at all ; beneath, and superciliary stripe, pale fawn 

 color, whitening on the throat and vent ; breast very faintly marked 

 with brown streaks ; a brown stripe from the gape below the ears, 

 and another from the lower edge of the under inandible, down 

 the throat of each side ; wing-coverts brown, broadly edged with 

 pale fawn color ; the two centre feathers of the tail brown, edged 

 with fawn, the outermost nearly all of that color ; the penultimate 

 tipped and edged only, and the remainder deep brown. 



Bill horny above, pale fleshy-yellow beneath ; legs fleshy yellow, 

 irides brown. Length nearly 7 inches; extent lOf; wing3 T %; 

 tail 2f to nearly 3 ; tarsus T -| ; bill at front y 5 ^ ; hind toe and 

 claw t 7 q ; the latter much more curved, and shorter than in C. 

 rufula. 



The Stone -pipit is found in suitable places throughout India. I 

 have found it most abundant in the Deccan, at Mhow in Central 

 India, and on the Eastern ghauts ; it is rare in the Carnatic ; Blyth 

 has it from Midnapore, and the N. W. Provinces. It frequents 

 barren, open, stony land ; and is never found in rich pastures 

 or meadows, like C. rufula, from which it otherwise differs 

 but little in its manners. Out of India, it occurs in parts 

 of Eastern Europe, Asia, and North Africa. It breeds in this 

 country. In Palestine it is recorded as frequenting the higher 

 plains and hills. 



The next two birds belong to a slightly different type. They 

 are of large size, with plainer and less spotted plumage ; the bill 

 is somewhat more curved towards the tip, and the hind claw is 

 well curved. Moreover they possess a minute 1st primary, as was 

 ascertained by Blyth, which is not present in any other of this 

 sub-family, except in the aberrant Enicuri. 



I was the first to notice these birds in India, though I did not 

 at the time consider them distinct ; but Mr. Blyth identified them 

 with the African birds described by Riippell. 



603. Agrodroma cinnamomea, Kuppell, 



Anthus, apud Ruppell — A. similis, Jerdon, Cat. 193 (m 

 part)— Blyth, Cat. 754 (in part; — Jerdon, 111. Ind. Orn., pi. 45. 



