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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Pratincola leucurus

Pratincola leucurus, Blyth.

484. :- Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 126 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 140.

THE WHITE-TAILED BUSHCHAT.

Length, 5 ; wing, 2.5 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0.75 ; bill at front, 0.45. Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black.

Male. :- Above black, with the usual white wing-patch; the breast bright rufous in the centre; sides of neck, breast, and lower parts pure white; the four outer tail-feathers wholly white on their inner webs, except the tip of the two outermost ; and the pair next the centrals (which are wholly black) have the greater portion of the inner web also white.

The female i s brown above, the feathers edged paler, with a smaller white wing-spot, but no white on the tail; beneath earthy-white, tinged rufous on the breast.

In winter the dorsal feathers are more or less edged with brown.

The White-tailed Bushchat is a winter visitant to Sind; it does not occur elsewhere 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: 
Pratincola leucurus
Spp Author: 
Blyth
Book Author: 
Barnes, H. Edwin
Year: 
1885
Page No: 
200
Common name: 
White Tailed Bushchat
M_ID: 
28416
M_CN: 
White-tailed Stonechat
M_SN: 
Saxicola leucurus
Term name: 
id: 
11635

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