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being the males. Bearing in mind the difference in plumage 
exhibited by S. shelleyi, it is possible that S. wquatorialis is the 
female of S. lewcomelena, but this seems to us unlikely, though 
Anchieta’s specimens were killed at the same place in the same 
month of the year; a larger series of birds is, however, requisite 
before we can finally decide on these questions. 
The following is a full description of an adult male of Burchell’s 
Wheat-ear. - 
* Adult male—Head and nape white, the latter very slightly 
washed with ashy; back and scapulars blue-black, the latter varied 
with white, some having the outer web only white, while others are 
edged with white on the inner and outer webs; feathers of the 
lower back black, white at the tips, where they adjoin the rump, 
which is pure white; upper tail-coverts also pure white, the centre 
ones however largely varied with black; lesser and median wing- 
coverts white, forming a large shoulder-patch; rest of the wing 
black; two centre tail-feathers black, the next two black with a 
white base to the inner webs; all the rest of the feathers white 
with irregular markings of black near the tips, not the same in 
shape in any two feathers, sometimes being a spot, sometimes an 
irregular marginal band; a narrow black line drawn from the base 
of the nostrils enclosing the eye, lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, 
and sides of neck, throat and breast, blue-black, as also the flanks 
and under wing-coyerts; whole of the lower breast, abdomen, and 
under tail-coverts pure white; thighs black, the feathers narrowly 
tipped with greyish-white; bill and legs black;. iris dark hazel. 
Total length, 6-4 inches; culmen, 0°8; wing, 4°53; tail, 3:1; 
tarsus, 1:2. 
Fig. Blanford and Dresser, P. Z. 8. 1874, pl. xxxvii. 
235. SaxicoLa ANDERSSONI, Sharpe. Andersson’s Wheat-ear. 
This bird may be described as very similar to S. lewcomelena, 
but distinguished by the entire under surface being black. Total 
length, 7°6 inches; culmen, 0°85; wing, 4°6; tail, 3°3; tarsus, 1:3. 
The specimens before us are five in number, one from Colesberg, 
apparently young, with a dusky grey head, and two from Damara 
Land, one (a male) haying been killed at “The Reeds,’ Swakop 
