12. piuxiNCor.i. 185 



tail-feathers dark brown, with obsolete narrow margins of lighter 

 brown ; wings brown, with a patch of white almost as distinct as iu 

 the male ; primary-coverts and tips of secondaries with obsolete 

 whity-brown edges ; lores buffy white ; sides of face brown, with 

 whitish shaft^lines to the ear-coverts ; throat ashy whitish, with 

 dark bases to the feathers ; fore neck and breast rufous, the rest of 

 the under surface white ; the sides of the upper breast brown, the 

 feathers of this part of the body having white bases ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries brown, with paler brown edges : quills below 

 dark brown, lighter brown along the inner webs. Total length 4"-4 

 inches, culmen 0-4o, wing 2-45, tail 1'85, tarsus 0-8. 



Young [ma?«]. Blackish brown like the adult, with longitudinal 

 fulvous-brown streaks ; wing-coverts tipped with lighter brown ; 

 white upper tail-coverts edged with dusky ; tail black, tipped with 

 white ; under surface of body rufous, the throat paler, and mottled 

 with blackish liases to the feathers. 



Obs. The Gaboon birds are smaller than those from the Cameroous, 

 but this may be owing to their being females. In this species the 

 female appears to have a red breast-patch like the male. 



Hab. West Africa: Cameroons and Gaboon. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Cameroons Mountains, 7000 ft. Major Burton [P-J- 



b. c? juv. sk. Mount Isabel, Cameroons. Major Burton [P.J. 

 e. 5 ad. sk. Gaboon (Du Chailhi). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 d. 5 ad. sk. Gaboon. R. B. ShaiTe, Esq. 



6. Pratincola rubicola. 



The Stonechat. 



Jje Traquet, Bn's.i. Orn. iii. p. 428, pi. 2.3. fig. 2 : Daiiheid. PL Enl. 



vi. pi. 678. hg. 1. 

 Motacilla rubicola, Linn. Syst. Xat. i. p. .3o2. 

 Stone-chat, Lath. Gen. Syn. iv. p. 448. 

 Sylvia muscipeta, Scopoli, Aim. i. p. 159. 

 Sylvia rubicola, Latfi. Ltd. Orn. ii. p. 523. 

 Saxicola rubicola, Bechst. Orn. Ta^chenb. i. p. 220, cum figs. 1, 2 ; 



Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 240 ; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. iii. pi. 90. 



tigs. 3, 4, 5 ; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 74 ; Gould, B. Eur. 



ii. pi. 94; Nordm. m Demid. Voy. Bussie Mer-id. iii. p. 132; Yai^. 



Brit. B. i. p. 24.T ; Kjm-b. Orn. Dan. pi. 18 ; Thomps. B. Irel. 



i. p. 172; Schl. Voy.' Nederl. pi. 92; Ifetcitg. Egys Brif. B. i. 



p. 107, pi. 30. fig. 1 ; 8c/d. Nederl. Voy. pi. 8. fig. IC ; Siindev. Sv. 



Fogl. pi. 66. fig. 2; Frifsch, Voy. Eur. tab. 25. fig. 4; Linderm. 



Voq. Griechenl. p. 109 ; Neivton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. p. 339 ; Dresser, 



B. 'Em: parts 28, 24, plate. 

 Pratincola rubicola, A'ooA, Syst. Better. Zool. p. 192 ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 179 ; Cah. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 10 ; Bp. Comp. 'i. p. 304 ; 



Hurtl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 66; Jaiib. et Barth.-Lapomm. Bic/i. Orn. 



p. 226; Hart/. J.'f. O. 1861, p. 112 ; Deql. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. 



J). 462 ; Loche, Eipl. Sci. Alger. Oi.t. i. p." 213 ; Gvu/d, B. Gt. Br. 



li. pi. 47 ; Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. i. tav. 66 ; Grai/, Jhtnd-l. B. i. 



p. 227, no. 3274 ; Sahad. Ucc. Hal. p. 90 ; Dtiderl. Arif. Sinl. 



p. 113; SJielleif, B. Eqypt, p. 81; Walden, in Dresser, B. Eur. 



parts 23, 24 ; 'irby, B. 'Gibr. p. 80. 

 Curruca rubicola, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. S,-c. Brit. Mus. p. 24. 



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