SAXICOLA CHKYSOPYGIA. 



(RED-TAILED CHAT.) 



Dromolcea clirysopygia, De Filippi, Arch. Zool. Genova, ii. p. 381 (1863). 



Saxicola Jcingi, Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 29. 



Saxicola chrysopygia (De Fil.), Blanf. & Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 230. 



Figura unica. 



Blanford, E. Persia, pi. x. fig. 1. 



Ad. capite et corpore supra fuscis, loris et regione parotica, saturate fuscis : stria superciliari indistincta grisea. : 

 uropygio et supracaudalibus rufescenti-cervinis : remigibus fuscis, secundariis griseo-cervino marginatis 

 et apicatis : cauda castanea nigro terrninata et pallide castaneo anguste apicatS, : subtus griseo-albidus, 

 pectore et hypochondriis pallide fusco lavatis, et subcaudalibus pallide castaneo tinctis : rostro et 

 pedibus nigris : iride fusca. Sexus similes. 



Adult Male (W. of Sehwan, Sind). Upper parts hair-brown, lores and ear-coverts dark brown; an indistinct 

 dull grey stripe over the eye; rump and upper tail-coverts wartn rufous buff; quills brown, the secon- 

 daries margined and tipped with warm greyish buff; tail chestnut-red, with a broad terminal black 

 band, and finally tipped with pale chestnut- red ; underparts generally greyish white, the breast and 

 flanks washed with pale brown, and the under tail-coverts with dull chestnut : bill and legs black ; iris 

 dark brown. Total length about 6 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 3"7, tail 2'75, tarsus TO. 



Adult Female (Gwadar, Baluchistan) . Undistinguishable in plumage from the male. Culmen 075 inch, 

 wing 3"62, tail 2 - 5, tarsus T05. 



The present species, like Saxicola albinigra, is remarkable in being similar in plumage in both 

 sexes, and in all probability the young does not differ from the adult, but up to the present 

 time I cannot find any description of the immature dress on record. 



It is found throughout Persia in the summer, and is, according to Mr. Oates (Faun. Brit. 

 Ind., Birds, ii. p. 79), apparently a winter visitor to the plains of North-west India, being found in 

 the Punjab west of the Jhelum Biver, Sind, Cutch, Northern Guzerat, and Rajputana as far east 

 as Jodhpur. According to Mr. Blanford (E. Persia, ii. p. 151) it occurs throughout Persia, in 

 summer at all events, in Baluchistan, Sind, Kachh, and North-western India, but it has not 

 been met with west of Persia nor east of the desert region of North-west India. I find it 

 recorded by Dr. Sharpe (2nd Yark. Miss. p. 86) from Panjah ; and Col. Swinhoe remarks (Ibis, 

 1882, p. 107) that he observed it in Southern Afghanistan, at Quetta, and in the Bolan Pass. 



Mr. A. O. Hume describes this Chat under the name of Saxicola Jcingi from a specimen 

 killed at Jodhpur, and says (' Stray Feathers,' i. p. 188) that he subsequently obtained it in 

 considerable numbers from the Salt Range, Murdan, and Peshawur, and also in the summer 



