376 TXTEDIDJ;, 



Dodpvl. Avif. Sicil. p. 112 flSOO) ; Grai/, Haml-l. B. i. p. 220. 



no. 32o0 (ih&d) ; Frit^ch, J 7)7/. Em: p. li)5 (1870) ; Salmd. Faun. 



Hal. Ucc. p. 87 (1871); hressi'r, B. Eur. pt. xxiv. (1873); 



Blanf. ^- Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 228. 

 DromoliBa leucura (Gml.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 303 (1850) ; Cab. Mm. 



Hein. i. p. (1850) ; Jaiih. et Bartk.-Lapmnm. Rich. Orn. p. 221 



(1859) ; mirfl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 05 (1857) ; Loche, Expl. Sci. Alyer. 



Ok. i. p. 197 (1867) ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 79 (1875). 

 "Vitiflora leucuros {Gtnel), Brehm, Vogelf. p. 225 (1855). 



Adult male in breeding-plumag?. General colour black ; quills 

 dark brown, paler on the under surface; rump, upper and under 

 tail-coverts white ; tail white, except the terminal half of the two 

 centre feathers and tlie tips from a quarter to half an inch of the 

 others, which arc dark brown. Eill, legs, 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 1"02 to 0-85 iuch. Length of wing 

 3-8 to 3-56 inches, tail 2-6 to 2-5, culmen 0-8 to 0-7, tarsus 1-05 

 to 1-01. 



There appears to be no seasonal change of phimage in this 

 species, ^he female differs from the male in having the black parts 

 dark brown, and in having the white parts slightly suffused with 

 buff. Birds of the year probably scarcely differ from the adult, 

 Yoiinri in first plumage differ from the female only in having ob- 

 scure pale terminal spots on the greater wing-coverts and innermost 

 secondaries, and in having the quills narrowly margined with pale 

 brown, and the tail-feathers tipped with white. 



The Black Chat breeds in South-western Europe, occasionally 

 straggling as far east as Greece. A few remain to winter, but the 

 majority migrate to Algiers. 



a. Ad.sk. Algeria. (Tristram). F. Godman and O. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Sahara. Purchased. 



12. Saxicola opistholeuca. 



Saxico^a leucura, Giiwl. apud JJIyth, J. A. 8. Beny. xvi. p. 131 



(1847). 

 Saxicola opistholeuca, Strickhmd, Jard. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 60 ; 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 167 (1849) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 226. no. 3255 (1869) ; Blanf. 8,- Dresser, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 229. 

 Bromolaea opistholeuca (StrickL), Bp. Consp. i. p. 303 (1850) ; Gould, 



B. Asia, pt. xvii. (1865). 

 Saxicola leucuroides, Guer. apud Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 130 (1863). 

 Saxicola syenitica, Heuyl. apud 8evertz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 65 (1873, 



coinp. 8evertz. 8tray Feath. 1876, p. 420). 

 Saxicola leiicopyga (Brehm) ?, Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 337. 



Adult male in hreecli ng-phiwage. General colour black ; quills 

 dark brown, slightly paler on the under surface ; rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, feathers round the vent, and under tail-coverts white ; tail 

 white, except the terminal half of the two centre feathers and the 

 tijia from a quarter to half an inch of the others, which are dark 



