. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . ; tarsus 1; bill fromgape -75. Distribution. The Pied Chat summers in digit and the moun-tains of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, extending at this season toPersia. In winter it visits the plains of the Punjab, Sind, G-uze-rat, Eajputana as far east as Deesa and Sambhar, and the North-west Provinces down to Allahabad. At this season it is alsofound in the low country of Baluchistan and Afghanistan. Habits, Sfc. Breeds from March to July, constructing a nest ofgrass, lined with feathers, in a hole of a wall or a cleft of a eggs ar
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . ; tarsus 1; bill fromgape -75. Distribution. The Pied Chat summers in digit and the moun-tains of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, extending at this season toPersia. In winter it visits the plains of the Punjab, Sind, G-uze-rat, Eajputana as far east as Deesa and Sambhar, and the North-west Provinces down to Allahabad. At this season it is alsofound in the low country of Baluchistan and Afghanistan. Habits, Sfc. Breeds from March to July, constructing a nest ofgrass, lined with feathers, in a hole of a wall or a cleft of a eggs are greenish blue, with very pale marks of rusty brownround the larger end, and measure about *81 by 56. 72 tuediDjE. 619. Saxicola capistrata. The White-headed CJiat. Saxicola leucomela (Pall.), apud Jercl. B. I. ii, p. 131. Saxicola capistrata, Goidd, Birds Asia, iv, pi. 28 (1865); Hume, S. F. iii, p. 475; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. niorio (Hempr. fy Ehr.), apud Hume, Cat. uo. 490; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 203. The White-headed Stone-Chat, Fig. 25.—Head of S. capistrata. Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult, the forehead, crown,nape, and hind neck are greyish white, somewhat whiter over theeye and ear-coverts; sides of the head, chin, throat, neck allround, back, scapulars, wings, under wing-coverts, and axillariesblack; remainder of lower plumage with rump and upper tail-coverts white ; tail white, except the terminal half of the middlepair of feathers and a broad band on the tip of the others, whichare black. Soon after the autumn moult the tips of the crown-feathers become reduced, and the crown is much whiter thanbefore. When these feathers become still more worn, the crownhas a tendency to exhibit patches of black. There is no otherseasonal change of plumage. Female. Eesembles the female of S. picata, but the upper plu-mage is more sandy ; the chin, throat, and breast are light fulvous,very little darker than the remainder of the lower plumage. The yo
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