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CEnanthe leucopyga leucopyga (Biehm). White- 



RUMPEl) WhKATEAK. 



^ 9 Glossy blue black ; crown (after spring moult), rump, 

 upper tail coverts, and tail (except central pair feathers) white ; 

 in central feathers basal half white, terminal half black ; 3rd 

 to 5th primaries equal and longest. Bill, legs and feet black. 

 Wing (^ 101-112, 9 95-102-5. Tarsus 25-27 (H.). Bill 13. 



Resident. — Egypt and Nubia to Palestine and Arabia. 



CE. leucopyga aegra Hartert. Bill smaller. Wing ^ 

 101-106, ? 92-100 (H.). 



Resident. — South deserts of Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli between 

 28" and 30'' N. 



CEnanthe monacha (Temminck). 



(^ Crown, nape, rump, upper tail coverts, lower breast, and 

 abdomen pure white ; back, scapulars, wings, face, throat, upper 

 breast, under wing coverts and axillaries black ; tail white except 

 terminal half of central feathers, which is brown ; 2nd primary 

 equal to 5th, 3rd and 4th equal and longest. Bill, legs and feet 

 black. Wing 102-106. Tarsus 23-24. Culmen 22-23 (H.)- ? 

 Above pale brown ; below pale yellowish brown ; rump and 

 upper tail coverts brownish white ; tail yellowish, terminal two- 

 thirds of central feathers dark brown, remainder tipped brown. 



Resident. — Desolate parts Egypt and Nubia through Palestine 

 to N.W. Indian frontier. 



Saxicola. 



Bush Chats, about 5^' long, allied to "CEnanthe" and 

 "Muscicapa"; frequenting bushes and herbage on commons, 

 heaths, and hills ; nest on or under bushes or in grass ; eggs 

 blue, finely spotted red brown. 



Saxicola rubetra rubetra (L.). Whinchat. Fr. Tarier ; 

 Ger. Braunkehlchen ; Ital. Stiaccino ; Swed. Buskskvatta. 



c^ Above dark brown with reddish margins giving a striated 

 appearance ; supcrcilium, chin stripe to sides of neck, two wing 

 bars and bases of tail feathers (except mid pair) white ; central 

 pair tail feathers and terminal half of remainder blackish browi^ ; 

 beneath, throat and breast reddish buff, abdomen dull white. 

 Primaries emarginate 3rd to 5th, ist about equal to coverts. 



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