from Somalihind and Sovthern Abyssinia. 1G5 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



[This Chat was met with only in the earlier jsart of our 

 journey, in the rocky gorges of the high plateau. In the 

 valley of the Didesa it was seen down to a level of 3000 

 feet.— L.] 



131. Saxicola leucomela. 



Saxicola leucomela (Pall.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 

 xxi. p. 162 (1884), & xxvi. p. 261 (1888). 



Saxicola morio Hempr. & Elir. ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. V. p. 373 (1881) ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 413 

 [N. Somaliland] ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 72. 



a. ^ . Lake Harrar Meyer, Abyssinia, 30 December, 

 1898. (No. 51.) 



b. ^ . Laga Hardim, Abyssinia, 14 January, 1899. 

 (No. 179.) 



c. (^ . Kassim river, Abyssinia, 19 January, 1899. 

 (No. 236.) 



d. ? . Jifadensa, Abyssinia, 22 January, 1899. 

 (No. 259.) 



e. ? , Borumeda, Abyssinia, 9 February, 1899. 

 (No. 306.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



Specimen a (30th Dec.) has the top of the head earthy 

 brown, the white nape-feathers tipped and the black feathers 

 of the back widely edged with the same colour, and the chin, 

 throat, and sides of the head fringed with buff. 



Specimen b (14th Jan.) has the feathers of the crown and 

 nape white, tipped with earthy brown, those of the back 

 narrowly fringed with the same colour, and hardly a trace 

 of buff margins to the feathers of the throat. 



Specimen c (19th Jan.) has the top of the head pure 

 white, and the back, chin, throat, and sides of the head 

 uniform black ; the breast, too, shows but slight trace of 

 fulvous, which is conspicuous in specimens a and b. 



132. Saxicola (enanthe. 



Saxicola oenanthe (Linn.) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. 

 p. 391 (1881) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 486. 



