Collection of Birds from Sonudi-hmd. 405 



grey ; forehead and a broad eyebrow white ; the wing-coverts 

 paler grey than the back and with dark shafts; the spurious 

 wing and the quills black, with broad white partial edges to 

 a few of the secondaries; rum p^ upper tail-coverts, and a 

 large portion of the tail white ; remainder of the tail black ; 

 two centre feathers black, with the base white, the white 

 diverging up the feathers for about one third of their length ; 

 the black on the remaining feathers forms a partial subter-' 

 minal band and passes down their outer webs next to the 

 shafts in a very acute angle for about two thirds of the 

 length of the feathers, and is broadest on the outer feather, 

 where it reaches to the margin for two thirds of its length ; 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, throat, front of the chest, axillaries, 

 and under wiug-coverts black ; remainder of the body and 

 under tail-coverts white ; under surface of the quills dusky 

 with a silver gloss ; bill and legs black. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0'5, wing 3'3, tail 2, tarsus TOS. 



The most marked characters for this species may be shortly 

 summed up by comparing it with the figure of S. seebohmi, 

 Ibis, 1882, pi. 14. In the present species the black of the 

 throat descends much lower, on to the front of the chest ; the 

 wing-coverts, with the exception of the spurious wing, are 

 pale grey or ashy white ; the tail-feathers, with the exception 

 of the centre pair, are tipped with white, and two thirds of 

 the outer web of the tail is black ; the thighs are white. 



Hah. Somali-land. 



'^ Shot on the 29th of December on the summit of the 

 mountains near Berbera, and not observed elsewhere.''^ 



• 34. Saxicola deserti. 



Saxicola deserti, Teram. PI. Col. 1825, pi. 359. fig. 2; 

 Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 352; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 V. p. 383 ; Dresser, B. Eur. ii. p. 215, pi. 27. 



Hab. N. and N.E. Africa as far south as Somali-land. 



" Common throughout the plateau.^' 



35. Saxicola isabellina. 



Saxicola isabellina, Riipp. Atlas, 1826, p. 52, pi. 34. fig. b ; 

 Speke, Ibis, 1860, p. 247 (Somali-land) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.- 



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