70 BIRDS OF EGYPT. 



Entire plumage sandy colour, shading off into white on 

 the chin ; top of the head, ear-coverts, and back of the neck 

 shaded with ashy, and with narrow stripes of dark brown 

 down the centre of the feathers ; beak yellowish flesh-colour, 

 darkest on the culuien ; legs pale brown ; irides hazel. 



Entire length 10 inches; culnien 0*7; wing, cai'pus to 

 tip, 3'8 ; tarsus 1-3. 



9. MoNTicoLA sAXATiLis (L.) Rock-Thrush. 



•^ ' The Rock-Thrush is a winter visitant to Egypt and Nubia, 



.) arriving there about September, and leaving again in April, 



I f) {/':' ' at which seasons it is tolerably plentiful in the Delta in the 



neighbourhood of burial-grounds and the less-frequented 



embankments. 



Entire head and neck blue-grey, almost shading off into 

 black on the upper part of the back and scapidars, where 

 the feathers are tipped with buff; remainder of the back 

 ■white, with the feathers more or less broadly edged with 

 slaty grey; tail-coverts yellowish rufous; tail deep rufous, 

 the two centre feathers strongly shaded with, dusky ; wings 

 brown ; under sm-face of the body bright rufous, with white 

 edgings to some of the feathers ; beak black ; legs and irides 

 dark brown. 



Entire length 7"5 inches ; culmen 0'8 ; wing, carpus to tip, 

 4'8 ; tarsus IT. 



Fig. Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. part x. 



10. MoNTicoLA CYANA, L. Blue Eock-Tlinish. 

 According to Von Heuglin (Orn. N. 0. Afr. p. 372), the 



