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■nith dark brown, tlie lower abdomen and under tail- coverts uni- 

 form sandy buff, without brown edges to the feathers ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries whitish, with dusky bases ; quills dark brown 

 below, buffy whitish along the edge of the inner webs. 

 Hub. Madagascar. 



a,b. (S 2 ad. sk. Mohanibo, Madagascar. ]\Ir. Garrard [C.]. 



c. Juv.sk. Madagascar. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [Rl. 



d. c? ad. sk. N.E. Madagascar. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



e. S ad. sk. Tintingue, 18G9. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 t. d ad. sL Bay of Autouzil. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



10. Pratincola hemprichi. 



Saxicola hemprichii, Ehrenb. Synth. Phys. fol. aa. 



Pratincola hemprichii, Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 304 ; Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i 

 p. 11 ; Gray, Hund-J. B. i. p. 227, no. 3278 ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 82 

 Blanf. Geol. S, Zool. Abyss, p. 364 ; Fiiisth, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 323 

 Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 65, 120 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875. p. 338 , 

 id. B. Eur. parts 23, 24, note; Hume, S. F. 1875, p. 239, note, 

 1877, p. 244 ; Antin. 8f Snlvad. Viayg. Bogus, p. 104. 



Pratincola rubicola hemprichii, Hengl. Oni. N.O.-Afr. p. 339. 



Adult male. General colour above black, with remains of pale 

 sandy-coloured edgings to the feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 white, ti])ped with rufous ; tail-feathers black, margined and tipped 

 with sandy buff, more distinctly on the two outermost, aU the 

 feathers white for two thirds of their length, excepting the centre 

 pair, which are white only at their base : wings black, with narrow 

 sandy-buff margins to the feathers, more distinct on the secondaries : 

 a large white wing-patch formed of the inner, median, and greater 

 coverts and the innennost secondaries, the latter being black along 

 their middle ; sides of head and throat black : throat and breast 

 orange-chestnut; centre of the body fulvous, the flanks washed with 

 pale orange-chestnut ; under tail-coverts whiter ; on the sides of the 

 neck a conspicuous triangular patch of white ; sides of the upper 

 breast white, washed with orange ; under wing-coverts black with 

 white edges : axillaries white with black bases ; quills blackish be- 

 low, edged with white along the inner webs ; bill and legs black ; 

 iris dark brown. Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-85,' 

 tail 2, tarsus O'So. 



Adult female. General colour above sandy buff, varied with darker 

 brown centres to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts white, washed with 

 pale rufous, the longer ones with a brown spot at the tip; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, edged and tipped with sandy buff, more distinct 

 on the outer ones; wings blackish brown, with" distinct edgings of 

 sandy buff, narrower on the primaries ; the white wing-patch distinct 

 and formed as in the male ; base of forehead and lores sandy buff, 

 extending over the fore part of the eye and forming an indistinct 

 eyebrow : roimd the eye a ring of fulvous feathers ; ear-coverts 

 darker brown, obscured by sandy brown edgings : throat ashy 

 fulvous, with a blackish spot on the lower part where the dark bases 



