1872.] F. Stoliczlca — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh. 239 
One of the two specimens was shot in January near Rapur in the 
Wagur district, and the other in February near Bhuj, in both cases in 
an open desert country with scanty low hushes. These were the only two 
specimens, which I saw, but possibly the bird may not bo so very rare ; for I 
could never pay undivided attention to an ornithological subject. 
489. Saxicola picata. 
Comp. Hume, in Ibis, 1870, vi, p. 283. 
Wing 3-6 to 3 75, tail 25 to 2-8 ; tarsus 09 to 095 ; bill 04 to 05. 
The female has exactly the same distribution of the colours as the male, 
but the black is replaced by blackish grey, the chin is rather whitish grey 
and the ear-coverts somewhat rufescent. 
One full plumaged male has an indistinct white stripe above the lores, 
and all the tail feathers are distinctly tipped white, the black being subterminal. 
Some apparently younger males with a dusky black plumage have the fore- 
head paler, but none shews the very marked creamy colour noticed in Gould’s 
capistrata, which was shown by Hume to be a young male of picata. 
491. S. isaueij.in'a, Riippel, (= saltatrix, Menet.). Rare. 
Comp. v. Pelzeln in Jonrn. fiir Ornithologies fur 1868, p. 27. 
Wing 3'75, tail 2'3, tarsus IT 7, bill at front 057. A specimen from 
the the Somali country, determined as isabellina by Blyth in the Asiatic 
Society’s collection (now Indian Museum), only differs in having the wing 
about 0-2 inch longer, (comp. Tristram’s statement in Ibis, 1867, p. 94) ; both 
have the blackish streak between the base of the bill and the eye, and the 
plumage is in every detail the same. 
4:1) lb is. S. Krxoi, Hume. (Ibis, 1871, p. 29). 
A single specimen was shot in Wagur in January, and I do not 
remember of having seen another. Wing 3 55, tail 2'3, tarsus T, bill at 
front 056 inch. The first primary is 175 shorter them the 3rd. The 
coloration exactly agrees with the specimen described by Mr. Hume, who 
kindly pointed out to me the bird amongst a number of females of the next 
species. 
492. S. deseiiti, Riippel, = atrogularis and montana, Gould. 
Very common. The wing of five males varies between 3’6 and 3'9, tail 
2 5 to 2 7, tarsus 095 to 1'05, bill 045 to 05 inch. Most of the females 
are a trifle smaller (wing 3'5 inch.), than the males. 
I have no doubt that Mr. Hume is correct (Ibis, 1870, vi, p. 283) in 
considering Gould’s 8. montana as the summer or breeding plumage of 
atrogularis. In Journ. As. Soc., 186S, xxxvii, Pt. II, p. 42, I have parti- 
cularly noticed the pure white on the median portions of the wing feathers 
on Tibetan specimens, shot during the summer, and regarding which von 
Pelzeln (Ibis, iv, p. 308) says that they agree with an Egyptian specimen of 
8. desert i, except that the latter is smaller. 
