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y: Back in the males black ; wing-coverts white.* 
N.B.—It is with regard to the species comprised in this section 
of the genus that we find ourselves at issue with the authors of the 
valuable paper to which we have been so much indebted in the 
course of the preceding pages, but in stating our views it must be 
admitted that the changes of plumage are so little understood that 
it is quite possible that our conclusions will require future modifi- 
cation. We propose, however, the followimg arrangement :— 
ee 
a. with the tail entirely black 
shelleyt 
(3. with white in the tail. 
a’. belly white monticola. 
leucomeleena. 
B’. belly black . é : - _ anderssont. 
231. SaxrcoLA ARNOTTI. Arnott’s Wheat-ear. 
This large and beautiful new species of Chat was sent to us from 
the new country called Albania, by our friend, Mr. D. Arnott, in 
whose honour the species has been named by Canon Tristram. 
Professor Barboza du Bocage has also identified as belonging to 
this species a Chat procured by Anchieta at Caconda in Benguela, 
and this identification is probably correct, as the British Museum 
has a specimen collected in Benguela by Mr. Monteiro. Nothing is 
known as yet of its habits. 
General colour throughout black ; wing-coverts white, as is also a 
stripe extending from the nostrils over each eye to the side of the 
head, and a few confused spots on the hinder part of the crown. 
Total length, 7:2 inches; wing, 3:9; tail, 3. We do not consider 
the typical specimen of 8. arnotti to be in full plumage as regards 
its head; the male when adult has probably a pure white crown. 
Mr. Monteiro’s bird has the crown entirely black, with a white line 
in front of the eye. 
Fig. Tristram, Ibis, 1869, pl. vi. 
_ * Several ornithologists having described these Chats as haying white 
shoulders, it should be pointed out that the shoulder-patch is formed by the 
white wing-coverts; the scapulars, which are the true shoulders, are black, only 
a few of them externally white. 
