!!)() MUSCICAPID.B. 



k\ /'. c? ? ad. sk. Kamptee, C. India. Dr. B. Hiiide [P.]. 



»)'. (S hiem. sk. Assam. Secretary of State for 



India [P.l. 

 «. c? Idem. sk. Upper Burmah. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



o'. 5 ad. sk. Bhaman, Upper Burmah, Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



Jan. 3. 1868. 

 ;/. c? Idem. sk. Tsitkau, Upper Burmah, Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



Feb. 2, 1875. 

 n'. c? Idem. sk. Teuasserim. J. CD. Packman, 



/■'. cT ad. sk. Si'naf<5, Tigv6, 7500 feet. W. T. Blanford, 



■s', t'. cJ ? ad. sk. Adigrat, 8000 feet. W. T. Blanford, 



«'. c? ad. sk. Moiintains of Abyssinia. Sir W. C. Harris [G.]. 



in,Esq.[P.]. 

 1, Esq. [C.J. 

 \, Esq. [C.]. 



8. Pratincola torquata. 



Le Gobe-mouche a collier du Cap de Bonne Espt^rance, Brisson, Orn. 



ii. p. 379, pi. 36. fig. 4 ; Daubent. IH. Enl v. pi. 672. fig. 2. 

 Muscicapa torquata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 328. 

 Cape Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 326. 

 Le Traquet patre, Lewtill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. p. 88, pi. 180. figs. 1, 2 ; 



Sundev. Crit. um Levcnll. p. 44. 

 ffinanthe rubicola, var., Vieill. N. Diet. cVHist. Nat. xxi. p. 435. 

 Motacilla (Saxicola) pastor, Voigt, ed. Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 511. 

 Pratincola pastor, Strickl. Ann. N. H. 1844, p. 410 ; Layard, B. S. 



Afr. p. Ill ; Dresser, B. Eur. parts 23, 24, note; Antin. ^- Salvad. 



Vioyg. Bogos, p. 103. 

 Pratincola sybilla, Cah. Mus. Ileiii. Th. i. p. 10 {nee L.). 

 Pratincola torquata, Sundev. Crit. oni Levaill. p. 44 ; Grill, Zool. An- 



teckn. p. 27 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 227, no. 3276 ; Sharpe, Cat. 



Afr. B. p. 28 ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 162 ; Sharpe, 



ed. Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 251. 

 Pratincola rubicola, Chapm. Trav. in S. Afr. ii. App. p. 399. 



Adidt male in hreeding-plumage. General colour above black, with 

 a few remains of sandy-brown edgings to the scapulars and feathers 

 of the lower back ; wing-coverts black, with narrow and nearly 

 obsolete white edgings to the greater and primary-coverts ; inner 

 median and inner greater coverts pure white, forming a large patch 

 on the wings ; quills dark brown, with obsolete edgings of whity 

 brown, a little plainer on the tips of the secondaries, the innermost 

 of which are white at the base ; feathers of lower back black, with 

 white tips where they adjoin the rump, Avhich is white as well as 

 the upper tail-coverts ; tail blackish, browner towards the tip and 

 white at the extreme base, the outer feathers obsoletely margined 

 with whity browir ; sides of face, throat, and fore neck black like 

 the crown ; sides of neck white, forming a half-collar, the feathers 

 adioining the hind neck white with black tips ; breast orange-chest- 

 nut, fading rather paler on the flanks, the abdomen buffy whitish, 

 the under tail-coverts white ; on each side of the upper breast a 

 patch of pure white feathers connected with the white on the sides 

 of the neck ; under wing-coverts black, with broad white edges ; 

 axillaries white, with black bases ; quills brown below, whitish 

 along the inner web ; bill and feet black : iris dark hazel. Total 

 length 5-2 inches, culmen Q-o, wing 2-75, tail 2-15, tarsus 0'95. 



