398 TCTIDID-E. 



coverts and innermost secondaries are broader and brighter, other- 

 wise no important change is obsei'vable. Birds of the year have the 

 bhick on the crown kss developed, the Wack feathers on the breast 

 have pale buff margins, and the tail-feathers have white tips. Young 

 in first phimagc have no black ; the feathers of the upper parts have 

 obscure pale tips, and the wings and tail-feathers buff tips ; the 

 underparts are pale buff, most of the feathers, especially on the 

 breast, having dark margins. 



The Black-hooded Chat appears to inhabit the whole of South 

 Africa, from the Zambesi on the east and Daraara Land on the west 

 southwards, where it is said to frequent the higher rocky grounds 

 during the breeding-season. 



a, b. Ad. st. South Africa. Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. South Africa. Purchased. 



d. Juv. sk. South Africa. R. B. Sharoe, Esq. 



e. Ad. sk. South Africa. J. Rocke, Esq. [P.J. 



f. g. c? ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown. H. Trevelyan, Esq. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Natal. R. B. Sharjie, Esq. 



i, k. cJ imm. sk. Potchef'stroom, Jan. 1877 Dr. Exton [P.]. 



( IF. Lucas). 

 I. (5 juv. sk. Potchefstroom, Dec. 25, Dr. Exton [P.]. 



IS7 Q {W. Lucas). 

 m, n. Ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi. Dr. Kirk [C.]. 



0. (S ad. sk. Okameja, Damara Land, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Jau. 21, 18G0 (C. J. 



Andcrsson). 

 p. (S ad. sk. Otjimbinque, June 4, 1866 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{C.J. A.). 

 q. Ad.sk. Pietermaritzhurg, May C.G. and W. Gates, Esqrs. 



{F. Oates). [P.]. 



r,s. (5 5 ad. sk. John Scott's Farm, Trans- C. G. and W. Oates, Esqrs. 



vaal, June 19 {F. Oates). [P.]. 



29. Saxicola albicans. 



Saxicola albicans, WaM. (Efv. K. Vet.-Ak. ForJi. 1855, p. 213; 



Blanf. Sf Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 236 ; Sharije, ed. Layardls 



B. S. Afr. p. 237 (1876). 

 Saxicola stricklaudii, Bonap., fide Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 225. no. 3214 



(1869); fide 8harpe, Cat.^Ap: B. p. 27 (1871); fide Gurney, 



Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 105"(1872). 



Adult male in hreedinei-plumage. General colour of the upper 

 parts very pale bufBsh brown ; lores and ear-coverts scarcely darker ; 

 traces of a paler eye-stripe ; wings and wing-coverts pale brown, the 

 outside webs of the feathers margined with white ; rump and upper 

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

 feathers brown, the brown tips becoming shorter towards the out- 

 side of the tail, and disappearing altogether on the outside webs of 

 the outside fcathei's ; underparts pure white. Bill, legs, feet, and 

 claws black. Wing with the second, third, and fourth primaries 

 nearly equal and longest, bastard primary 0-75 to 0-6 inch. 

 Length of wing 3'5 to 3-45 inches, tail 2-1 to 1-95, culmen O'S to 

 0-72, tarsus 1-25 to 1-2. 



Th.Q female does not differ from the male. After the annual moult, 



