314 TrRDIDJ5. 



Tiirclus saxatilis, Linn. Sijst. Xat. i. p. 294 (1700) ; Gmel Sijst. Xaf. 



i. p. 833 (1788) ; Lath. Lnd. Orn. i. p. 330 (1790) ; Beclist. Nntun/. 



L)e2ifschl.iY.-p.2-2o (1796); id. Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 150 (1802) ; 



Wolf, Taschenb. i. p. 200 (1810) ; Pallas, Zoogr. Hossu-Asiat. i. 



p. 440 (1811) : Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 92 (1815) ; Vieill. JV. Diet. 



d'lIiM. Nat. XX. p. 281 (1818); Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 172' 



(1820) ; Nordm. Demid. Vmj. Euss. mirid. iii. p. 129 (1840) ; 



Werner, Atlas, Lnsectiv. pi. xx.' (1842) ; Gray, Oen. B. i. p. 220 



(1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 260. no. 3800 (1809). 

 Eock-Shrike, Lath. Gen. 8ijn. i. p. 176 (1781). 

 Lesser Eock-Shrike, Lath. Gen. Si/n. i. p. 177 (1781). 

 Lanius infaustus, /3. minor, Gtnel. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 3lO (1788). 

 Tiu-dus infaustus {Gmel), Lath. Lnd. Orn. i. p. 335 (1790). 

 Saxicola montana, Koch, Syst. haier. Zool. i. p. 185 (1816). 

 Monticola saxatilis (Linn.), Boie, Lsis, 1822, p. 552; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As.Soc. p. 165 (1849) ; Cah.Mus. Hein.'i. p. 7 (1850); Loehe, 



JS.rpl. Sci. Alf/er., Ois. i. p. 196 (1807) ; LLeuffl. Orn. N. O.-Afr. i. 



p. 370 (18G9) ; Sahad. Faun. Ltal. Ucc. p. 86 (1871) : Neik. ed. 



Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 292 (1872) ; Shelley, B. Ik/ypt, p. 70 (1872) ; 



Sharpe S) Dresser, B. Eur. pt. x. (1872) ; Hume Sf- Henders. Lahore 



to Yark. p. 190 (1873) ; Blyth ^ Wald. B. Biirm. p. 99 (1875) ; 



L-hy, B. Gihr. p. 76 (1875) ; Dresser, This, 1875, p. 335 ; Blanf. 



East. Persia, ii. p. 156 (1876) ; Prjev. Lioivley's Orn. Misc. ii. 



p. 201 (1877) ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 160 (1877). 

 Petroeincla saxatilis (Linn.), Vigors, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 396 (1826) ; 



Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 86 (1837) ; Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 477 (1849) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 297 (1850) ; Ilartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 78 (1857); 



Jauh. et J3arth.-Lapo}}im. Pich. Orn. p. 219 (1859) ; Filippi, Viaqg. 



Pers. p. 347 (1865) ; Degl. et Gerhe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 446 (1867) ; 



Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 110 (1869); Fritsch, For/. Eur. p. 189 



(1870) ; Hartinr/, Handb. Br. B. p. 99 (1872) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. 



Zool. France, p.'l46 (1876) ; Bogd. B. Cauc. p. 81 (1879). 

 Petrocoss^-phus saxatilis (Linn.), Boie, Lsis, 1826, p. 972 ; PUpp. 



Syst. Uebers. p. 60 (1845). 

 Sylvia saxatilis (Li7m\ Savi, Orn. Tosc. i. p. 218 (1827). 

 Petrocossyplius goureyi, Brehm, Vog. Dentschl. p. 370 (1831). 

 Petrocossyphus polyglottus, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 370 (1831). 

 Saxicola saxatilis (Linn.), Piipp. Ne.ue Wirb. Vog. p. 80 (1835). 

 Petrocichla saxatilis (Linn.), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. 1, 175 



(1840) ; Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 83 (1800) ; Severtz. Turkest. 



Jevotn. p. 65 (1873). 

 Orocetes saxatilis (Linn.), Llorsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.L Co. i. 



p. 189 (18.54). 

 Petrocinla saxatilis {Linn.), FLeugl. Syst. Uehers. p. 29 (1856). 

 Petrocinchla saxatilis {Linn.), Newt. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 9 (1862). 



In the adult male in hreedinri -plumage tlie entire head and neck, 

 including the lores and the ear-coverts, are cobalt-blue, shading into 

 bluish black on the upper back and scapulars ; back white, each 

 feather more or less obscurely margined with bluish grey, the mar- 

 gins entirely obscuring the white on the rump and showing traces 

 of chestnut tips ; upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut, except the 

 terminal half of the two centre feathers of the latter, which are 

 brown ; wing-coverts dark brown, with obscure white tips ; quills 

 brown, most of the secondaries having greyish-white tips. The 

 whole of the underpaits below the neck chestnut ; the feathers of 

 the centre of the belly with obscure pale tips. Bill black. Wings 



