400 TrEDID.E. 



Saxicola isabellina, Cretz^chvi. Riipp. Atlai, p. o2 (1826) ; Riipp. 



Neiie Wirb., Vdff. -p. 80 (183o); id. Si/st. Uebers. p. 58 (1845); 



Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 179 (1846); Bp'. Comp. i. p. 304 (1850): 



Heugl. Si/st. Uebers. p. 26 (1856) ; id. Orn. N. O.-Afr. i. p. 344 (1869) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 225. no. 3216 (1869) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 360 ; Blanf. S^- Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 229 ; Dresser, B. ■ 



Bur. pt. xxviii. (1874) ; id. Ibis, 1875, p. 385 ; Blanf. Bast. Pers. 



ii. p. 147 (1876); Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p! 145 (1876); 



Prjcv. Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 184 (1877) ; David et Oust. Ois. 



Chine, p. 164 (1877) ; Finsch, Verli. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 



1879, p. 164 5 Bogd. B. Cauc. p. 91 (1879) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, 



p. 192. 

 Saxicola saltator, Menetr. Cat. Rais. Cauc. p. 30 (1832) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 303 (1850) ; Deyl. et Gerbe, Orn. Fur. i. p. 452 (1867) ; 



SeveHz. Turkest. jerotn. p. 65 (1873). 

 Saxicola squalida, Eversm. Add. Pall. Zooqr. Rosso-Asiat. p. 16 



(1835) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 303 (1850) ; S'evertz. Turkest. Jecotn. 



p. 65 (1873). 

 Vitillora saltatrix (Menetr.), Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. 4" iV. Amer. 



p. 16 (1838). 

 Saxicola saltatrix (Menetr.), Keys. ti. Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. lix, 192 



(1840) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 178 (1846) ; Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 485 



(1849); Under m. Vdg. Griechenl. p. 112 (1860); Radde, Reis. 



Sibir., Vdg. p. 245 (1863) ; Fritsch, Vdg. Eur. p. 104 (1870) ; 



S'helleg, B. Egypt, p. 72 (1872). 

 Saxicola valida, Licht. JVomencl. Av. p. 35 (1854). 

 Saxicola cenantlie (Linn.), /3. squalida, Eversm., Neivt. List B. Eur. 



Blasius, p. 10 (1862). 

 Saxicola cenanthe (Linn.),apudJerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 1?,2 (1883). 

 Dromolsea isabelliaa (Riipp.), Loclxe, E.vpl. Sci. Alger., Ois. i. p. 201 



(1867). 

 Saxicola strapazina (Pall.), Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p. 145 



(1876). 



Adult male in hreeclin<i-pluma(je. General colour of the upper 

 parts saud)- brown (varjing in individuals from dull brown to 

 sandy brown, according to climate) ; eye-stripe pale buff, obscure, 

 and extending to the nape ; lores black ; upper part of ear-coverts 

 slightl}' darker than sides of neck ; wings and wing-coverts brown, 

 all the feathers with more or less distinct paler margins ; nimp and 

 upper tail-coverts white ; tail white, except the terminal three 

 fourths of the two centre feathers and the tei'minal two fifths of the 

 others, which are dark brown. Underparts pale buff, slightly 

 darker on the throat and breast ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 nearly white ; inner margin of quills pale buff. Bill, legs, feet, 

 and claws black. Wing with the third aud fourth primaries nearly 

 equal and longest, second primary sometimes as long as the fourth, 

 bastard primary 0-7 to 0-61 inch. Length of wing 3-9 to 3-6 

 inches (females 3*8 to 3-5), tail 2*3 to 2-05, culmen 0"71 to 0-69, 

 tarsus 1-19 to 1-08. 



The adult female in hreeditig-plmnage scarcely differs from the 

 male. After the autumn moult the quills and tail-feathers are 

 margined with sandy brown at the tip, and the innermost secon- 

 daries and wing-coverts are similarly margined, not only at the tip, 

 but along the outside webs ; the underparts are also slightly darker 



