11. SAxrcoLA. 371 



nearly equal aul longest, second primary intermediate in length 

 between the fifth and sixth, bastard primary 0*8 to 0-7 inch. 

 Length of wing 3-b to 3-3 inches, tail 2*(j5 to 2"35, culmen 0-75 to 

 0-65, tarsus 1-1 to 1-0. 



Adult feiiude in hreed'uvi-plnni'^tfie. General colour of the upper 

 parts pale brownish grey, darkest on the scapulars, and suffused 

 with isabelline on the head and nape : lores, ear-coverts, and cheeks 

 grey ; eye-stripe nearly white, extending to the nape ; wings and 

 wing-coverts dark brown : rump and upper tail-coverts white ; tail 

 white, except the terminal three fifths of the two centre feathers 

 and the terminal fourth of the others, which are dark brown. The 

 whole of the underparts are nearly white, with a butt" tinge on the 

 under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts grey : inner 

 margin of quills white, at the base- extending to the shaft. Males 

 of the year resemble the female, but have the lores, ear-coverts, and 

 cheeks nearly black, and the throat varying from grey to nearly 

 black. Both males and females of the year have pale tips to the 

 quills and tail-feathers. Ymtny in first plumage appear to be un- 

 known. (The nestling figured in Dresser's ' Birds of Europe ' is not 

 that of this species, but that of Saxkola niorio.) It is alleged 

 that old females acquire the plumage of the adult male ; but this 

 statement requires verification. 



The White Under-winged Pied Chat is a resident in Algeria, 

 Eg3-pt, Arabia, and Palestine, and is occasionally found in Xubia. 



E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 23, F. Godman andO. Salviu, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Sir S. Baker [P.]. 

 Dr. Leith Adams [P.]. 



F. Galton, Esq. [P.]. 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 



7. Saxicola lugentoides. 



This is an excellent species, which has been most unaccountably 

 and undeservedly overlooked by the French ornithologists, and by 

 Messrs. Blanford and Dresser, when they examined the most in- 

 teresting series of Chats in the Museum of tlie Jardin des Plantes. 

 It is nearly allied to the preceding, but differs from it in the following 

 particulars : — The white on the head is more suffused with grey, 

 and ends abruptly on the nape, and the white on the rump is less 

 developed, causing the black on the back to extend nearly twice the 

 distance that it does in the northern species. The upper tail-coverts 

 are slightly tinged with buff : the buff on the under tail-coverts 

 is much deeper in colour, approaching chestnut : the two centre 

 tail-feathers are black for the terminal two thirds of their length, 

 and the black tips to the remaining taU-feathers extend three 

 quarters of an inch or more. Bill, logs, feet, and claws black. "Wings 

 with the third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest. 

 Second primary intermediate in length between the sixth and 

 seventh; bastard primary Q-'J to OS inch. Length of wing 3-6 to 



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