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it does manage to pick up a living on grass or other 
seeds and small insects. 
Two other Chats very closely related are the 
Hooded Chat and the Mourning Chat. The former 
is very similarly marked on the body, but has a 
white top or hood on its head, whilst the latter has 
the top of its head a delicate dull grey, and a 
buffish tone over the under tail-coverts. 
ROSY-VENTED CHAT 
Saxicola moesta 
Black on sides of face; wings, a blackish brown with 
lighter margins ; under parts a warm white gradating into a 
pinkish rufous as it nears tail; tail, dark at end, white at 
base; eyes, brown. Length, 6:2 inches. 
Tuis is not so common a bird as the preceding, 
but still if a sharp look-out be kept it ought to be 
seen. It inhabits the desert, but I have twice seen 
it on the edge of cultivation, and the particular bird 
I made my drawing from got up from stubble just 
by the river-side. Both this bird and the White- 
rumped are closely related to our own Wheatear 
on one side and to our Stone-chat on the other. 
All these birds are alike in the continued restlessness 
