236 F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting KacTih. [Xo. 3, 



excubitor ; all the tail feathers have at least their extreme tips white, even 

 the central ones, hut only visible after a fresh moult, (which is also the case 

 in the two nest species). 



A full account of this species will he found in Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, for 1870, p. 595, by Mr. Dresser. On p. 596 the author says, ' rump 

 and upper tail coverts white,' the description being taken from an old Pan- 

 jab bird. Now, it is strange that in about a dozen of specimens which I 

 shot in Kachh, and some of which are decidedly very old birds in full 

 plumage, the rump and upper tail coverts are albescent grey, in some the 

 latter may be called greyish white, but that is the utmost limit of white. 

 In fresh moulted old specimens the extreme terminal edges, of the upper 

 tail coverts are blackish, but they appear very soon to wear of. Perhaps the 

 distinction of possessing the rump and upper tail coverts white applies to the 

 winter plumage, which I do not know. 



257. L. eettheonottjs. Pare. 



260. L. vtttatus* (= HardwicTcii, auctorum). Very common. 



262. L. ABEN'ARrrjs.f Pare. 



Bill at front 0"42 to 45, wing 35 to 36 ; tail 33 to 345, tarsus 09. 

 These measurements are somewhat smaller than those generally given of the 

 species. The young is striped in the usual way on the sides of neck and of the 

 body, and on the chest. The light coloured band on the rectrices, such as is 

 noticed by Viscount Walclen in Ibis, vol. Ill, p. 224, is only occasionally 

 present, perhaps in old birds. The species migrates during the summer 

 to Western Tibet, where I saw it in the Indus valley. 



265. Tepheodoenis Pondiceeiana. Not common. 



The wing varies (in four specimens shot) between 3"3 and 3'4, none is 

 3*5 inch. The two outer tail feathers on each side are white, except at the 

 base and towards the tip, there being only the sub-terminal outer, or both 

 webs dusky ; the 3rd and 4th last tail feather on each side generally have 

 also a white edge about the middle of the outer web. 



276. Periceocottts peeegetnus. Very common. 



The orange whig patch does not extend on any of the outer webs of 

 the first 5 primaries. Wing 2"5 to 2"6, tail 2 - 7 to 3 ; tarsus 06 inch, 

 (not jo 1 ). 



277. Peeiceocotus eeytheopygutts. Not common. 



I have occasionally seen flocks of this species hunting over high grass 

 on dried up portions of tanks. In the jungles it is more often seen single, 

 or in pairs. 



* Ibis, 1868, iv, 316. f Comp also Jerdon in Ibis, 1872, p. 115. 



