382 TURBID.?!. 



primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary intermediate in 

 length between the fifth and sixth, bastard primary 0-65 inch. 

 Length of wing ;3"7 inches, tail 2*4, culmen 0*7, tarsus 0'94. 



The /«)«((/(' appears to be unknown. It is not known whether 

 any change in the colour of the plumage is produced by the autumn 

 vioult. 3Iah's of the i/enr have the black feathers replaced by dark 

 brown, and the feathers of the throat are tipped with brown. 

 J'ounf/ in first plumage are unknown. 



The Eed-rumped Chat appears to be confined to Xubia, where 

 it is probably a resident. 



There is no example of this very rare Chat in the British iluseum. 

 The type (male of the year) is in tlie Berlin Museum, a second male 

 of the year is in the collection of Mr. E. Cavendish Taylor, and an 

 adult male is in the collection of Canon Tristram. Xo other examples 

 are known. 



1 6. Saxicola mcesta. 



Saxicola mcesta, Licht. Ferz. Douhl. p. 33 (18:23); Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 304 (18."J0); Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 225. no. 3228 (18U'J) j 

 Hcm/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 355 (1869) ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxx. 

 (1874); Bhrnf. S,- Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 223. 



Saxicola philotliamna, Tristram, Ibis, 18-j9, pp. 58, 299, pi. ix. ; 

 Tristram, Iln's, 1867, p. 93 ; Ifeuc/J. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 355 (186:)) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 225. uo.'3217 (1869) ; J. H. Gurnei/, jun., 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 79; Sharpe Sf Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xvii. (1873). 



Adult male in hreeding-plumage. Forehead, crown, and nape, 

 extending more or less onto the mantle, white, slightly sufiused 

 with buif and grej' ; back and scapulars dark brown ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts white, more or less suffused with buff. Wings and 

 wing-coverts brown, more or less broadly edged with white on the 

 outer webs ; rump and upper tail-coverts buff; tail brown, the 

 basal half of the outside feathers, the basal third of the centre, and 

 nearly two thirds of the rest pale dull chestnut ; lores, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, chin, throat, sides of neck, axillaries, and under wing- 

 coverts sooty black ; the rest of the underparts white, slightly 

 suffused with buff on the breast and more so on the under tail- 

 coverts ; inner margin of quills greyish white. Bill, legs, feet, and 

 claws black. AYing with the third and fourth primaries nearly 

 e(]ual and longest, second primar}- about equal to the sixth, bastard 

 primary 1-0 to 0-8 inch. Length of wing 3' 75 to 3"o inches, tail 2*85 

 to 2-7, culmeu 0-8 to 0'72, tarsus l-16tol-0. 



In the female the forehead, crown, and nape are pale dull chest- 

 nut, shading into lavender-grej' on the back and again into pale 

 dull chestnut on the rump and upper tail-coverts. Tail-feathers as 

 in the male ; lores and ear-coverts dull chestnut ; underparts pale 

 buff, darker on the breast and under tail-coverts, and greyer on the 

 axillaries ; inner margin of quills pale buff. After the autumn 

 moult the head and nape are suffused wnth grej% leaving a narrow 

 pale eye-strij)e, and the innermost secondaries have buff margins. 



