1847.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 131 



slightly tipped, and the tertiaries margined with whitish, disappearing 

 in the worn plumage ; a considerable whitish patch at the base of the 

 wing, ordinarily concealed beneath the scapularies ; also an ill-defined 

 whitish supercilium continued to the occiput, and contrasting with the 

 black adjoining it below : upper and lower tail-coverts buffy-white ; and 

 base of tail pure white, its terminal two-thirds black. Bill and feet 

 black. Common in the Upper Provinces, Scinde, &c. If new, S. 

 atrogularis, nobis. 



2. S. leucomela. Tern. Also common in the NW. of India. 



3. S. picata, nobis, n. s. Merely differs from the last in having the 

 crown of the head black, instead of white. For both sexes of this and 

 of the preceding species, the Society is indebted to Capt. Boys, who 

 procured them abundantly on the march from Scinde to Ferozepore. 

 The present species is figured among Burnes' drawings, from Scinde. 



4. S. leucura, (Shaw). This, again, only differs from S. picata in 

 having the whole under-parts, as far as the vent, of a uniform black 

 with the rest. Together with (supposed) S. stapazina, it is common 

 about Agra, from which locality Dr. Stewart has presented the Society 

 with fine specimens of both.* 



N. B. The Darunga Thrush of Latham, obtained at Cawnpore in 

 November, appears to me (judging from the description) to be a true 

 Wheatear ; and it certainly cannot be the Merula Wardii of Jerdon, to 

 which that naturalist has referred it.j* 



Among Burnes' drawings, there is also a rude figure of what is 

 probably Sax. melanura, Tern., a species described as inhabiting 



* Stephens refers this to S. cachinnans, Tern. ; but the latter is, I believe, the 

 species figured "by Savigny (t. v.,/. i.), which differs from S. leucura, as S. leucomela 

 differs from S. picata, in having a white cap. There are thus a white-capped and 

 a black-capped species with white belly — S. leucomela and S. picata, and ditto ditto 

 with black belly — 6'. cachinnans and S. leucura. 



f " Length six inches at least. General colour of the bill, legs, and plumage, black; 

 over the eye, from the nostrils towards the nape, a whitish streak, but ceasing before 

 it reaches the latter ; breast, belly and thighs, white, also the upper tail-coverts; the 

 greater part of the tail from the base white, the side feathers being only tipped with 

 black for half an inch ; but the two middle feathers have their ends black for an inch 

 and a half: the wings reach to more than half on the tail. Another, said to be a female, 

 has the head and neck to the breast, and wings, and the whole of the two middle tail- 

 feathers, dusky brown-black; on each jaw a large patch of deep black: breast, belly, 

 thighs, and rump, upper and under tail-coverts, white ; the two middle tail-feathers 

 black ; the rest white, except for about half an inch at the end." 



