AGRODROMA. 



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Length. — 6'5 to 7 inches, wing 3 to 3'25, tail 2-5, tarsi 1, bill at 

 front 0-4. 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Bengal, Assam, British 

 Burmah, and Nepaul ; also Beloochistan, Afghanistan and Eastern 

 Turkistan. Common in the Concan and Deccan ; breeds in Sind during 

 April and May. Eggs 3 — 4, of a greenish colour, with numerous brown 

 mottlings all over, chiefly at the larger end. 



Gen. Agrodroma.— (Sws. 



Characters same as those of Corydalla, but with the hind claw 

 shorter. 



Agrodroma carapestris, Bechst. ; P. E. 661,2 ; Naum. vogt. t. 



84,1 ; Qould. Birds Eur. pi. 137 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 234 ; Hume, Str. 

 F. i. 202; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., 8fc., Sind, p. 168.— The Stone Pipit. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts olive 

 brown, with a faint rufescent tinge, the feathers of the head with mesial 

 dark streaks, those of the back very faintly streaked or absent ; rump 

 unstreaked, upper tail-coverts with dusky shafts ; chin whitish ; rest of 

 under surface and supercilium pale or rufescent fawn, albescent on the 

 vent and under tail-coverts ; a brown stripe from the base of the lower 

 mandible down the sides of the throat, another from the gape; 

 primaries and secondaries ver'y pale brown, edged externally with pale 

 or rufescent fawn ; the secondaries tipped whitish ; tei'tiaries brown, 

 with broad fulvous or pale fawn margins; wing- coverts brown, broadly 

 tipped and edged with the same colour; tail dark brown, the feathers 

 edged fulvous, the centre feathers broadly edged with fawn, the outer- 

 most feather on each side white, basally dark shafted, and margined on 

 the inner web with brown, the next, edged on the outer web, tipped, 

 and for about an inch running up the inner web, whitish ; the shaft 

 and I'est of the feathers brown; bill horny ; lower mandible yellowish ; 

 legs yellowish. 



Length. — 7 to 7'25 inches, wing 3'6, tail 2'75to 3, tarsi nearly 1, bill 

 at front 0-5. 



Llah. — Central and Southern Europe, N. and W. Africa, Central and 

 Southern India, Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces and Bengal, Beloo- 

 chistan, Persia and Afghanistan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, Jeypore 

 and N. Guzerat, Concan and Deccan. Arrives in Sind about Septem- 

 ber ; less common in the Southern districts. 



Agrodroma sordidus, Rup-p. Neu. Wirb. p. 103, pi. xxxix. fig. 



1 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 236 ; Layard, Ibis, 1871, p. 228 ; Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 437; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, ^c, Sind, p. 169; Blf. East. 

 Persia, p. 237. Corydalla griseo-rufescens, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 286. 

 An thus jerdoni, Finsch. Trans. Zool. 8oc. vii. p. 241. — The Beown 

 EocK Pipit. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts dull earthy 

 brown, the feathers edged paler; wings and tail darker brown than 

 the upper parts ; supercilium fulvous or fawn coloured ; a faint brown 

 stripe from the base of the lower mandible down the sides of the 



