58 On two Species of Passerine Birds. 



I append tlic iollowing full description of the types of this 

 Acredula in my collection : — 



AcKEDULA sicuLA. (Plate II.) 



Adult male (from Bosco di Fienzza, Sicily ; February 3rd, 

 1901). Forehead and crown light brown, with an ill-defined 

 median whitish stripe ; lores and space immediately sur- 

 rounding the eyes whitish ; a collar round the nape dull 

 black ; entire back and rump grey ; upper tail-coverts 

 blackish ; Avings blackish brown, the secondaries edged w ith 

 white; tail with its four central feathers black, the next 

 adjoining pair black, very slightly fringed with white on the 

 outer web, the next pair rather more fringed with white, 

 and the two exterior pairs distinctly tipped with white and 

 having the entire outer web white ; chin white ; throat and 

 upper breast white, with a slight admixture of darker 

 feathers ; lower breast and abdomen whitish, tinged with 

 pale brown, and becoming vinous rose on the flanks and 

 crissum; under tail-coverts vinous rose, tipped with whitish. 

 Irides dark hazel, eyelids yellowish ; bill and feet blackish 

 brow^n. Total length 5 inches, wing 2"25, culmeu "20, 

 tarsus "GO. 



Adult female (from Bosco di Fienzza, Sicily; February 3rd, 

 1901). Plumage, colouring, and soft parts almost identical 

 with those of the male. Total length 5 inches, wing 2'20, 

 culmen "20, tarsus "GO. 



In a recent number of the ' Bulletin ' of the British 

 Ornithologists^ Club (see vol. x. p. xvii) a new species of 

 Chat was described by me under the name of Saxicola 

 cummingi. The specimen from which the description was 

 taken is in the Britis-h Museum collection, and appears to 

 have been wrongly identified as S. mcesia Lieht. 



This Chat was procured by Mr. W. D. Gumming at Fao, 

 in the Persian Gulf, and as it is apparently a rare species — 

 the present example being, so far as I am aware, the only one 

 known to exist in any collection — I have thought it well to 

 have the accompanying figure of it made for 'The Ibis.' 



