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* e quents waste ground, usually on the borders of cultivation, and at Besharik and Bora in 
u gust it was found associated with Saxicola deserti. In the neighbourhood of Yarkand it 
i' f -'eds in April and May ; three quite young birds were obtained there during the latter month. 
] ' e Turki name for all Wheatears is Childt, a word having some reference to the black-and- 
^ ite tail; the present species is distinguished as JBoz childt, i. e. 1 the Grey TV heatear. 
Saxicola desekti. 
Saxicola atrogularis, Blyth ; Hume & Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 205 (1873). 
Saxicola deserti, T. ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 337 ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 143 (187G) ; Blanf. East. Peisia, 
ii. p. 148 (1876) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 57 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 383 (1881) ; 
C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 107 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 69 ; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 
1883, p. 85; Scully, J. A. S.Beng.lvi.p. 82 (1877) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. p. 74 
(1889) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 78 (1890). 
Saxicola solina, Eversm. ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873) ; id. Str. F. iii. p. 429 (1875). 
^°. 811. North of Suget Pass, October 16, 1873. 
j “ The Black-throated TVheatear,” writes Dr. Henderson, “ was common in Ladak, from 
Y to Leh, and, indeed, almost to the Pangong Lake, and again in the Lower Karakash 
a (> y a nd the ])lains of Yarkand. A nestling was obtained on the 5th of August at Balakchi, 
11 tbe Karakash, showing that the bird breeds in this neighbourhood. 
tb‘. Scully states that “ this species was common in the plains of Kashgharia at elevations 
1500 feet and upwards, and in some portions of the hills up to an elevation ot 12,o00 feet. 
never observed during the winter. In the plains it was found in the desert ground 
tw een § aT1 j u an q Karghalik, hopping among the little sand-banks, and it was common 
I T^ een Shahid ula and Gulgun Shah in the Karakash Valley. It probably breeds in the 
men tioned during the months of June and July. The Turki name for this species 
Kla Chikit,” the “ Variegated TVheatear.” 
Stoliczka says that it breeds in the Duba Valley. 
' I ' ^^XICOLA MONTANA. 
Saxicola deserti, pt. (nec Cretzschm.) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 148 (1876). 
‘ "xicola montana, Gould; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. p. 384 (1881) ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 38 
(1885) ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 164; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 78 (1890). 
Y° s - ^98, 511 [d ? moulting]. Kharbu, August 21, 1873. 
°. oil [d moulting], Snimu, August 26, 1873. 
£°- 5 K> [ d moulting]. Leh, August 27, 1873. 
°- 6 88 [ d ]. Zingral, South of Chang-la, 15,000 feet, September 14, 1873.— Total length 
6 - 65 inches, wing 4'0, tail 2'9, tarsus 1'0. Iris blackish brown; bill and feet black. 
Y°- 6 °3 [ d ]. Tsultak, north of Chang-la, 15,500 feet, September 15, 1873. 
0s - 1490, 1505, 1522 [ d ad.]. Panjah, April 14, 1874. 
°* 14 ^6 [ d ]. Panjah, April 16, 1874.— Length 6'85 inches, wing 4'0, tail 2’7, tarsus 1*04. 
_ Iris dark brown ; bill and feet black. 
°- 1081 [ 5 ]. South-west of Ighiz Yar, May 18, 1874. 
t °- 1819 [ $ ]. Karghalik, May 30, 1874. 
°‘ ^^12 [ d ]. Kugiar, June 1, 1874. 
in \ I)r ' 8tol iczka remarks that this species (which he at first mistook for S. deserti ) had young 
' Usust when he was at Kharbu. At Tsultak he says it was “ very common, and evidently 
