180 JIUKCICAPII).15. 



Sylvia zya, Scop. Ann. i. p. 158. 



WhincLat, Lath. Gen. Si/n. iv. p. 454. 



yultry Wlieatear, Lath. torn. cit. p. 455. 



Motacilla fervida, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 'J08. 



Sylvia fervida, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 525. 



Saxicola rubetra, liechst. Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 219 ; Temm. Man. 



d'Orn. i. p. 244 ; Naum. Voy. Deidschl. iii. pi. 89. figs. ^^, 4 ; Werner, 



Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 73 ; Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 93 ; A'ordm. in 



Demidof, Voy. Eus.sie 3Icrid. iii. p. 133 ; Kjccrb. Orn. Dan. pl.l8 ; 



Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 249; Thomps. B. Irel. p. 174; Schl. Voy. 



Nederl. pi. 91 ; Ilewitn. Eyys Brit. B. i. p. 108, pi. 30. fig. 2 ; Schl 



Nederl. Voy. pi. 8. figs. 14, 15 ; Sundev. Sv. Foyl. pi. 11. rigs. 3, 4; 



Fritsch, Voy. Ear. pi. 25. figs. 2, 3 ; Linderm. Voy. Griechenl. p. 109 ; 



Neivton,ed'.Yarr. Brit.B.^. 344; Dresser, B. i?w;-. parts 23, 24, plate. 

 Pratincola rubetra, Koch, Si/st. Bnier. Zool. p. 191 ; Ilartl. Orn. W.- 



Afr. p. 67 ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 179 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 304 ; Cab. 



Mus. Hein. Th. i.'p. 10 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 07 ; Janh. et Barth. 



Lap. Rich. Orn. p. 225 ; Hartl. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 112 ; Deyl. et Gerbe, 



Orn. Earop. i. p. 461 ; Loche, E.vpl. Sci. Alyer. Ois. i. p. 211 ; Gray, 



Iland-l. B. i. p. 227, no. 3275; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 113 ; S(dvad. 



Ucc. Ital. p. 89 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. ii. pi. xlvi. ; Bettoni, Ucc. 



Lomb. tav. 4; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 338; Blanf. Geol. 8^ 



Zool. Abyss, p. 364 ; Shelley, B. Eyypt, p. 81 ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. 



vii. p. 323 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 27; Walden in Dresser, B. 



Eur. parts 23, 24 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 57; Severt.z. Turkest. Jevotn. 



p. 65 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 337 ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 80. 

 Curruca rubetra, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. 8fc. Brit. Mus. p. 24. 

 (Eiiantbe rubetra, Vieill. N. Diet. xxi. p. 427; Boux, Orn. Prov. pi. 203. 

 ffinantlie fervida, Vieill. N. Diet. xxi. p. 436. 

 Saxicola orarapes, Brchm, Isis, 1828, p. 1282. 

 Saxicola pratorum, Brehm, torn. cit. p. 1282. 

 Saxicola septentrioualis, Brehm, torn. cit. p. 1282. 

 Saxicola rubecula (lapsn), Bp. Faun. Ital. Ucc. Introd. p. 8. 

 Fruticicola rubetra, Macyill. Br. B. ii. p. 271. 

 Eubetra major, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 22. 

 Pratincola fervida, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 179 ; Ilartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 67 ; Cxray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 228, no. 3287. 

 Pratincola cranipes, Brehm, Xauni. 1855, p. 282. 

 Pratincola pratorum, Brehm, torn. cit. p. 282. 

 Pratincola septentrionalLs, Brehm, torn. cit. p. 282. 

 Pratincola senegalensis, Ilartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 68 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 228, no. 3288. 



Adult male in hreedinri-plmnage. General colour above sandy buff, 

 the feathers with longitudinal central streaks of blackish brown, 

 imparting a striped appearance to the upper parts, the head rather 

 darker and with broader streaks ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 rufescent buff, streaked with brown, the latter mottled with arrow- 

 head subtermmal spots of blackish brown ; wing-coverts black, with 

 a large white patch formed by the inner median and greater coverts, 

 some of the latter with brown edges near their tips, the adjacent 

 ones being black, white on the inner web ; primary-coverts white, 

 tipped with blackish brown, forming an alar speculum ; quills 

 brown, edged narrowly with dull sandy buff, the bases of the inner 

 primaries white, the secondaries narrowly tipped with buffy white ; 

 tail-feathers brown, narrowlv edged with sandv colour, all of them 



