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dominating on the rump ; lores and ear-coverts black : throat, super- 

 cilium, and wing-spot, white ; also the fore-neck, but the rest of the 

 lower- parts tinged with ashy : tail black, its feathers narrowly mar- 

 gined with white externally, and the outermost pair (which are half an 

 inch shorter than the middle ones,) for the most part partially albes- 

 cent. Female rather smaller, and wholly brown above, passing to fer- 

 ruginous on the upper tail-coverts, and there is an admixture of this 

 colour on the rectrices : under- parts pale brown, rufescent on the flanks 

 and lower tail-coverts, and whitish on the throat. Bill and feet black. 

 Common in the eastern Himalaya. 



Saxicola (?) pallida, nobis, n. s. This bird is essentially a 

 Wheatear ; but is remarkable for its large size, long bill, and short legs. 

 Length nine inches ; of wing four and three-quarters, and tail three 

 and three-eighths; bill to gape an inch and a quarter; tarse the same. 

 Colour (of female ?) light isabella-grey above, more fulvescent on the 

 tertiaries and middle tail-feathers, which are shaded with pale dusky 

 along the middle : lores, throat, and belly, whitish ; the breast-feathers 

 dusky, with broad whitish margins concealing the dark colour within : 

 central ear-coverts pale, the rest nigrescent: wings internally white on 

 the anterior half, the rest dusky ; above the primaries and secondaries 

 are white at base, and the shorter primaries are also white-tipped, 

 the white increasing in quantity to the secondaries, which are broadly 

 white-tipped ; greater wing-coverts also white-tipped, forming a bar on 

 the wing; and the small wing-coverts margined with pale fulvescent: 

 tail, except its two middle feathers, dusky, the outermost having its 

 narrow outer web almost wholly white, and the penultimate a narrow 

 white edge to its outer web. Bill pale horny ; and legs also pale. 

 Inhabits Scinde (Ullah Bund), and the specimen described was pre- 

 sented to the Society by the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society of London. 



Of typical Indian Wheatears, may be enumerated — 

 1. S. stapazina (?), Auct. Length about six inches and a half, of 

 wing three and three-quarters, and tail two and a half ; bill to gape 

 three-quarters of an inch, and tarse an inch and one-sixteenth. General 

 colour pale fawn (or isabelline) above, lighter below, and tinged with 

 greyish on the crown and nape ; throat, front and sides of the neck, 

 including the lores and ear-coverts, black ; wing also black, the coverts 



