18 Dr. A. L. Adams on the Birds of Egypt and Nubia. 



The Blue-breast is plentiful in all cultivated parts of Egypt and 

 Nubia. 



RUTICILLA PH(EN1CURA. 



Not uncommon in Lower Egypt, and seen at Thebes. I found 

 it at sea, migrating southwards, in the beginning of November. 

 At that season it arrives in Malta, where a few spend the winter, 

 but the majority proceed to Egypt and North Africa. 



RUTICILLA TITHYS. 



The two female specimens I procured in Nubia have the entire 

 plumage ashy brown, excepting the russet of the rump and tail, 

 and the margins of the eyelids gi'ey ; no trace whatever of a fringe 

 on the secondary quills. These peculiarities agree with the E?'i- 

 thacus cairii of Degland. I forward the specimen for examina- 

 tion. It frequents the ruined forts and desert stony places, and 

 is by no means common. 



Pratincola rubicola. 



Seen, now and then, all the way to the Second Cataract. 

 Females predominate. I think there is more dull red on the 

 Egyptian than on the English bird, especially on the rump and 

 throat. The AVhinchat was not observed. 



DROMOLiEA LEUCOCEPHALA, Brchm : (Ibis, 1859, p. 298). 



From its white head, this handsome Chat might be mistaken on 

 wing for Saxicola leucomela ; otherwise it is exactly like the Black 

 Wheat-ear (D. leucopyyia), with which it was often seen asso- 

 ciating. Among the sterile wastes of Nubia, around deserted 

 villages and the ruined temples of the Pharaohs, it delights to 

 sport. On the carpus and bastard wing of two male specimens 

 a white feather was observed. The average length is 6| inches. 



DROMOLiEA LEUCOPYGIA, Brchui : (Ibis, 1859, p. 297). 



Is closely allied to D. leucura. The two upper tail-feathers 

 have about two-thirds of their distal extremities black, the 

 tips of the others being more or less marked with the same 

 colour, which seems to vary in degree in diflPerent specimens; 

 the rest of the tail, vent, and lower portion of the back 

 snowy white; remainder of the plumage glossy black, ex- 

 cepting the wings, which are brownish black in all my speci- 

 mens (females). The average length is 6| inches. This is the 



