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ORNITHOLOGY. 
erroneously elevated to the dignity of a distinct species^ and 
figured as Saxicola montana. 
492 {bis), Saxicola Hendersoni (Hume). (PI. XITI.) 
This species^ which Mr. Hume believes to be new^ was found 
at the Arpalak River near Sanju, and at Koshtak_, twenty 
miles further north. They were found in fields, little 
patches of cultivation on the borders of the desert, and were 
associated with S. atrogularis. [G. H.'\ 
Dr. Adams remarked in the " P. Z. S.^' for 1859, p. 180 : 
At the salt lake in Ladak, on one occasion, a bird evidently 
of this genus [Saxicola) was observed about the size of a 
Whinchat; upper parts a bluish black, breast black, 
belly and lower parts white ; a specimen was not pro- 
cured.''^ It is just possible that the species thus referred 
to may be the present one ; it is a Saxicola of the same 
type as S. atrogularis and S. deserti, but smaller and more 
slender than either, and has the whole of the back and wing 
coverts and wings a sort of bluish black, the feathers more 
or less margined and tipped with pale fawn colour, and the 
tail, which would be very conspicuous in fiying, is entirely 
white, except the terminal portions of the two central, and 
a comparatively narrow (and on all but the exterior ones 
almost obsolete) black or blackish brown band on the 
laterals. 
Dimensions. 
Male. 
Male. 
Male. 
Female. 
Female. 
6-5 
6- 
6- 
5-75 
5-75 
11-5 
3- 
2-2 
2-3 
2- 
2-2 
3-95 
3-75 
3-75 
3-7 
3 -.5 
0-45 
0-45 
0-46 
0-45 
0-45 
0-95 
0-93 
0-95 
0-9 
0-94 
Wings when closed fall 
short of tail by ... . 
1- 
Description. — The bill, legs, and feet are black. 
Plumage. — Male. — The lores, a narrow band on the 
forehead, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, upper portion of 
breast, and sides of neck, black ; a colour that in winter 
plumage would doubtless be more or less concealed by 
pale tips to the feathers, which are already beginning to 
