SAXICOLA. 143 



Length.— Wing 8-7 to 3-5, tail 2-7 to 2*4, culmen 07 to 0-62, tarsus 

 1"1 to 0"9. Female unknown.-^ (Seehohm). 



Hah. — North, Western and Central India, and Sind during winter. 

 Breeds in Turkistan and probably Afghanistan also. — (Seebohm, Cat, 

 B. Br. Mas. p. 368). 



Saxicola mouaclia, Rupp. fide Tern, PI. Col. No. 359, fig. 1 ; id. 

 Sijst. Ushers. Tp. b8; Gray, Handlist B, i. p. 226; Shelley, B. Egypt, 

 p. 78, Sharpe and Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xvi. Blf. and Dresser, P. Z. S. 

 1874, p. 227 ; Blf. East. Pers. ii. p. 150 ; Seehohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. 

 V. p. 369. Saxicola pallida, Rupp. fide Cretzschm, Rupp. Atl. xxxiv. ; 

 Gray, Handlist B. i. p. 224, No. 3213. Dromoleea monacha, {Rupp.), Bp. 

 Co?isp. i. 302; Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 186. Saxicola gracilis, Licht. 

 Norn. Av. p. 35. — The Hooded Stohe Chat. 



Adult Male. — General colour black; quills dark brown, paler on under 

 surface ; head, nape, upper and lower tail-coverts, belly, and flanks 

 white ; tail white, except the terminal half of the two central feathers, 

 and the tips of others, which are very dark brown; bill and legs black; 

 irides brown. 



Length. — 7 to 7'25, wing 4 to 4*42, tail from vent 2' 75, tarsus 09, 

 bill at front 0-62. 



Adult Female. — General colour very similar to the male, but browner, 

 and the white parts suffused or tinged with buffy. 



Hah. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine; winter- 

 ing in Sind. Said to be resident in Persia and Egypt. 



Saxicola morio, Hemp, et Ehr. Syrnh. Phys. fol. a. a. ; Dresser, B. 

 Eur. pt. xxvii. (1874 partim). Dresser and Blf. Ibis. 1874, p. 338 ; Blf. 

 East. Pers. ii. p. 152; Wardl. Ramsay, Ibis. 1880, p. 65; Seehohm, Cat. 

 Birds Br. Mus. p. 372. Saxicola leucomela, (PaZZ), Tern. Man. d'Orn. i. 

 p. 243; Gould. B. Eur. ii. pi. 89 ; Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 1 78, Bp. Gonsp. 

 i. 303; Severtz. Str. F. 1875, p. 429. Saxicola Hendersoni, Hume, Ibis. 

 1871, p. 408 ; Hume and Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 206, 

 pi. xiii. — The White-headed Stone Chat. 



^rfwZi ilf a /s.— General colour black ; quills dark brown, paler on the 

 underside; head, nape, hind neck, rump, upper and lower tail-coverts, 

 breast, flanks, and belly, white; the head and nape tinged greyish; tail 

 white, the two centre feathers black for the terminal half, and the 

 others tipped black from a quarter to half an inch ; bill and legs black ; 

 irides brown. 



" Length.— Wing 89 to 3-6 inches {Female SS to 3-45), tail 2-66 to 

 2-25, culmen 0-7 to 0-6, tarsus 1-0 to 0- 8b. "—{Seehohm). Female, like 

 the male, but the upper parts earthy brown. 



Hah. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Cashmere, Palestine, 

 and Egypt. Winters in Sind, Arabia, Abyssinia, and breeds (according 

 to Seebohm) in Cypi'us, Crimea, Caucasus, Persia, Afghanistan and 

 Turkistan; also in Western Thibet, Mongolia, Siberia, and N. W. 

 China. 



