230 F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh. [No. 3, 
excubitor ; all the tail feathers have at least their extreme tips white, even 
the central ones, but only visible after a fresh moult, (which is also the case 
in the two next species). 
A full account of this species will be found in Proc. Zool. Soc. 
London, for 1870, p. 595, by Mr. Dresser. On p. 596 the author says, ‘ rump 
and upper tail coverts white,’ the description being taken from an old Pan- 
jab bird. Now, it is strange that in about a dozen of specimens which I 
shot in Kachh, and some of which are decidedly very old birds in full 
plumage, the rump and upper tail coverts are albescent grey, in some the 
latter may be called greyish white, but that is the utmost limit of white. 
In fresh moulted old specimens the extreme terminal edges, of the upper 
tail coverts are blackish, but they appear very soon to wear of. Perhaps the 
distinction of possessing the rump and upper tail coverts white applies to the 
winter plumage, which I do not know. 
257. L. erytheottottts. Bare. 
260. L. vittatus* (= HardwicJcii, auctorum). Very common. 
262. L. arenariits.-}- Bare. 
Bill at front 042 to 0 45, wing 3*5 to 3 6 ; tail 3*3 to 3*45, tarsus 0*9. 
These measurements are somewhat smaller than those generally given of the 
species. The young is striped in the usual way on the sides of neck and of the 
body, and on the chest. The light coloured band on the rectrices, such as is 
noticed by Viscount Walden in Ibis, vol. Ill, p. 224, is only occasionally 
present, perhaps in old birds. The species migrates during the summer 
to Western Tibet, where I saw it in the Indus valley. 
265. Tephrodornis Pondiceeiatta. Not common. 
The wing varies (in four specimens shot) between 3'3 and 3*4, none is 
3-5 inch, The two outer tail feathers on each side are white, except at the 
base and towards the tip, there being only the sub-terminal outer, or both 
webs dusky ; the 3rd and 4th last tail feather on each side generally have 
also a white edge about the middle of the outer web. 
276. Peeiceocotes pebegeiyts. Very common. 
The orange wing patch does not extend on any of the outer webs of 
the first 5 primaries. Wing 2*5 to 2*6, tail 2*7 to 3 ; tarsus 0*6 inch. 
(not -jo). 
277. Periceocottts erythropygies. Not common. 
I have occasionally seen flocks of this species hunting over high grass 
on dried up portions of tanks. In the jungles it is more often seen single, 
or in pairs. 
* Ibis, 1868, iv, 316. 
f Comp also Jordon in Ibis, 1872, p. 115. 
