10. MYKMECOCICnLA, 355 



Five spot'ios are residents in South Africa ; two are found in Abys- 

 sinia, one of M'liich extends to Palestine, whilst the eighth species 

 is a residejit in North-western India. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Scapulars or lesser wing-coverts white. 



(Subu-eneric p-oup MYRMECOCiCHLiE.) 

 «'. Throat black; breast and belly huffish white, bifasciata, p. 355. 

 h'. Thx'oat, breast, and belly brown funnicivora, p. 356. 



b. Scapulars and lesser wing-coverts nearly uniform 



brown or grey like the back, 

 f'. Second primary emarginated at the tip. 



(Subgeneric group Sinuatoid.e.) 

 a". Upper tail-coverts slaty brown. Length 



of wing 4'2 to 40 inches pollu.v, p. 357. 



b" . Upper tail-coverts white. Length of wing 



3'8 to 3'3 inches cinerea, p. 358. 



c". Upper tail-coverts chestnut. Length of 



wing 2 9 to 2'8 inches sinuata, p. 360. 



d' . Second primary not emarginated at the tip. 



(Subgeneric group Uebcomp;l,b.j 

 d". Tail black, in contrast with the brown back. 

 a'" . General colour of the upper and uuder- 



f»arts russet-brown f"^<^'f} P- 360. 

 Teneral colour of the upper and under- 



parts grey melanura, p. 360. 



e". Tail earthy brown, nearly the same colour 



as the back fuscicaudata, p. 361. 



1. Myrmecocichla bifasciata. 



Saxicola bifasciata, Toinii. PL Col. no. 472. fig. 2 (1829) ; Grat/, Gen. 

 B. i. p. 179 (1846); Laiiurd, B. S. Aft: p. 104 (1867); Grm/, 

 Iland-l. B. i. p. 22ii. no. 3240 (1869) ; 'Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 27 

 (1871); Bhmf. ^- Dre.'<se>; P. Z. 6'. 1874, p. 2:iQ ;' Sharpe, ed. 

 Lmjard's B. S. Afr. p. 240 (1876). 



Campicola bifasciata (Temm.), Bp. Comp. i. p. .304 (1850) ; Cab. 

 Mus. m-in. i. p. 10 ( 1850). 



Saxicola spectabilis, Hartlaub, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 428, pi. xxiii. 



Adult male in hreecHng-plHinaije. Forehead and a distinct eye- 

 stripe reaching to the nape huffish white ; crown, nape, and back 

 black, the feathers of the latter with brown margins ; scapulars, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts white, more or less suffused with buff ; 

 wings and tail black. Lores, chin, throat, cheeks, ear- coverts, and 

 sides of the neck black : axillaries and under wing-coverts black ; 

 the remainder of the nnder])arts buff; inner margin of quills pale 

 brown. Bill, legs, feet, and claws black. Wings with the third to 

 the sixth primaries nearly etinal and longest, second primary equal to 

 the seventh, bastard primary 1' 15 to 1-05 inch. Length of wing 3-75 

 to ;3-3 inches, tail 2-5 to 2-25, culraen 0-75 to 0-72, tarsus 1-28 to 1-2. 



']l\xc fe)nale is huffish brown on the upper parts, shading into dark 

 buff on the rump and upper tail-coverts, with an obscure buft' eve- 

 stripe and obscure dark centres to the feathers of the head and back ; 

 wing-coverts and innermost secondaries dark brown, with buffish- 

 browu margins. The underparts are brownish buff, with dark 



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