1872.] F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting KacKh. 239 



One of the two specimens was shot in January near Rapur in the 

 Wagur district, and the other in February near Bhuj, in both cases in 

 an open desert country with scanty low hushes. These were the only two 

 specimens, which I saw, but possibly the bird may not be so very rare ; for I 

 could never pay undivided attention to an ornithological subject. 



489. Saxicola picata. 



Comp. Hume, in Ibis, 1870, vi, p. 283. 



Wing 3-6 to 3-75, tail 25 to 2'8 ; tarsus 09 to 095 ; bill 4 to 0-5. 

 The female has exactly the same distribution of the colours as the male, 

 but the black is replaced by blackish grey, the chin is rather whitish grey 

 and the ear-coverts somewhat rufescent. 



One full plumaged male has an indistinct white stripe above the lores, 

 and all the tail feathers are distinctly tipped white, the black being subterminal. 

 Some apparently younger males with a dusky black plumage have the fore- 

 head paler, but none shews the very marked creamy colour noticed in Gould's 

 capistrata, which was shown by Hume to be a young male of picata. 



491. S. isabellina, Riippel, (= saltatrix, Menet.). Rare. 

 Comp. v. Pelzeln in Journ. fur Ornithologie fur 1868, p. 27. 



Wing 3 - 75, tail 2 - 3, tarsus 1*17, bill at front 057. A specimen from 

 the the Somali country, determined as isabellina by Blyth in the Asiatic 

 Society's collection (now Indian Museum), only differs in having the wing 

 about 0-2 inch longer, (comp. Tristram's statement in Ibis, 1867, p. 94) ; both 

 have the blackish streak between the base of the bill and' the eye, and the 

 plumage is in every detail the same. 



491Jis. S. Kingi, Hume. (Ibis, 1871, p. 29). 



A single specimen was shot in Wagur in January, and I do not 

 remember of having seen another. Wing 3 "55, tail 2 - 3, tarsus l - , bill at 

 front - 56 inch. The first primary is l - 75 shorter them the 3rd. The 

 coloration exactly agrees with the specimen described by Mr. Hume, who 

 kindly pointed out to me the bird amongst a number of females of the next 

 species. 



492. S. deseeti, Riippel, = atrogularis and montana, Gould. 



Very common. The wing of five males varies between 3'6 and 39, tail 

 2-5 to 2-7, tarsus 095 to 1-05, bill 0"45 to 05 inch. Most of the females 

 are a trifle smaller (wing 3*5 inch.), than the males. 



I have no doubt that Mr. Hume is correct (Ibis, 1870, vi, p. 2S3) in 

 considering Gould's S. montana as the summer or breeding plumage of 

 atrogularis. In Journ. As. Soc, 1868, xxxvii, Pt. II, p. 42, I have parti- 

 cularly noticed the pure white on the median portions of the wing feathers 

 on Tibetan specimens, shot during the summer, and regarding which von 

 Pelzeln (Ibis, iv, p. 308) says that they agree with an Egyptian specimen of 

 S. desert i, except that the 'latter is smaller. 



