12. PRATINCOLA. 191 



Adult male in ivinter plumage. Differs from the summer plumage 

 in having the whole of the hlack feathers ohscured by dull rusty- 

 coloured edges, which are found even on the throat and the chestnut 

 breast-feathers ; white neck-patch obscured by rusty margins to the 

 plumes ; white bases to the iuner secondaries broader, and these 

 feathers sometimes so broadly edged with white as to form a narrow 

 longitudinal bar down the wing. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dark brown, the feathers lighter and more fulvous-brown on their 

 edges, imparting a somewhat mottled appearance ; head slightly 

 darker than the back, the pale edgings to the feathers not so appa- 

 rent ; wing-coverts and quills dark brown, edged with ligliter brown, 

 the white wing-patch not so conspicuous as in the male, the inner 

 median coverts being merely tipped with white, while the inner 

 greater coverts are white more or less washed with brown markings, 

 the innermost secondaries white at the base ; upper tail-coverts 

 white, the longer ones with blackish tips ; lores and a tolerably 

 distinct eyebrow fulvous ; sides of face also fulvous, the upper edge 

 of the ear-coverts brown ; chin ashy fulvous, the lower throat mot- 

 tled with dark brown bases to the feathers, as also are the hinder 

 cheeks ; remainder of under surface orange-chestnut, the abdomen, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts fulvous ; sides of upper breast brown ; 

 under wing-coverts ashy whitisli, with blackish bases to the feathers ; 

 quills brown below, fulvescent along the inner web. Total length 

 5-5 inches, culmen O'O, wing 2*5, tail 2-1, tarsus 0'85. 



Hab. South Africa. 

 «. c? ad. sk. South .\frica. Purchased. 



h. (S ad. sk. South Africa. J. Rocke, Esq. [P.]. 



c. (J ad. sk. South Afi-ica. Capt. Stanley IP.]. 



d. c? ad. sk. Natal. R. 13. Sharps, Esq. 



e. (^ ad. sk. Transvaal ( T. Ai/res). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Zambesi (Meller). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 g. S ad. St. Cape of Good Hope. 



h. 5 ad. St. Cape of Good Mope. Sir Andrew Smith [C.]. 



9. Pratincola sybilla. 



Le Traquet de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 439, pi. 24. fig. 4. 



Motacilla svbilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 337. 



Le Fitert, Buf. Nat. Hist. Ois. v. p. 231. 



Sybil Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. iv. p. 450. 



Sylvia sybilla, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 523. 



PVatiucola sybilla, Bp. Consp. i. p. 304; Hartl. Faune Madag. p. 38 

 Roch 4- E. Newt. Ibis, 1862, p. 272 ; E. Neut. Ibis, 1803, p. 34-5 

 A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 836 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 227, no. 3277 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 394 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 28 ; Dresser, B. 

 Eur. parts 23, 24, note ; llurtl. Tog. Madag. p. 121. 



Pratincola pastor (nee Voigt), Hartl. Faune Madag. p. 39; Grandid. 

 Per. et Mag. de Znol. 18(i7, p. 3.VJ. 



Saxicola torquata, ScM. Hf Poll. Faun. Madag. Ois. p. 93. 

 Adult male in breedin-f-plumage. tieneral colour above jet-black, 

 the upper tail-coverts white ; tail black, browner towards the ti2)S 

 of the outer feathers ; wings bhtck. with obsolete browner margins 



