Saxicola alboniger, Hume.
489bis. :- Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 142.
HUME'S PIED STONECHAT.
Length, 6.5 to 7.75 ; wing, 3.8 to 4.25 ; tail, 2.75 to 3; tarsus, 1 to 1.1; bill at front, 0.56 to 0.65.
Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black.
Head, neck, upper back, and throat black; quills dark brown; under wing-coverts and axillaries black ; tail white, with a broad terminal band of dark-brown, broader on the two central feathers ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, breast, belly and under tail-coverts white.
Hume's Pied Stonechat is a winter visitant to Sind, hut occurs nowhere else within our limits.
BookTitle:
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference:
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book:
Saxicola alboniger
Year:
1885
Page No:
202
Common name:
Humes Pied Stonechat
M_ID:
28563
M_CN:
Hume's Wheatear
M_SN:
Oenanthe albonigra
Term name:
id:
11640
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