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296 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. Honsrirrp's Description of the 
This species differs from the Motacilla Maderaspatana, Linn.; 
chiefly by the griseous band which covers the back, and the less 
extent and depth of colour of the black mark which is found 
before and under the eye. Mr. Caley has not noticed the habits 
of this bird, beyond its having built its nest in a mulberry-tree 
close to his house. 
Genus. Saxricora*. Bechst. 
1. SOLITARIA. Sax. supra fusco-brunnea, fronte, pectore, abdo- 
mineque ferrugineo-rufis ; gulá albidá. — = 
Frontis plumæ pallide ferrugineæ, gule albide. _ Tectrices in- 
feriores ferrugineo-rufæ. Remiges internè ad basin rufes- 
centes; subtus pallide fusce. Rectrices suprà fusco-brun- 
nez, subtus brunneo-fuscæ. Rostrum pedesque pallide 
fusci. Irides avellaneæ. Longitudo corporis, 5 ; ale a carpo 
ad remigem quartam, 22; caude, 17 ; rostri ad frontem, + ; 
ad rictum, y ; tarsi, 14. 
* We adjoin the following description of a New Holland bird of this genus, which 
has been kindly sent to us by Mr. Buchanan of this Society. 
9. JARDINII. Sax. nigrescenti-grisea, abdomine albo; alis rectricibusque nigris, 
illis albo-fasciatis, his, mediis exceptis, fascia in medio lata, ad apicem gracili, 
albá notatis. = : | 
Caput thoraxque nigrescentes ; illo griseo, hoc albo parce sparsis: hujus color nigres- 
cens in pectus descendit, semilunam efformans. Ptila grisescentia. Remiges 
prima et secunda tote nigra; tertia internè ad basin albo-marginata; quarta 
quinta et sexta interné albo marginatæ inque medio fasciatæ ; cæteræ utrinque in 
medio albo-fasciatæ : subtus fuscæ, albo, ut superné, notatz.  Tectrices inferiores 
albæ, nigro variegatæ. Rectrices quatuor externe in medio utrinque latè albo- 
fasciatæ, ad apicem albo-marginatæ ; quinta pogonio externo albo-fasciata; duæ 
mediæ tote nigræ. Rostrum pedesque nigri. Longitudo corporis, 6$; ale a 
carpo ad remigem quartam, 34; caude, 232 ; rostri ad frontem, 2, ad rictum, 3 ; 
tarsi, 1. i ; : 
Viri in Ornithologiá prestantis, nobis amicissimi, GULIELMI JARDINE, Baroneti, 
Societatum Regie Edinensis et Linneane Socii, hec species nomine distinguatur. 
Motacilla 
