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78 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



are dark brown ; remainder of the plumage black, shading 

 into browii on the quills ; beak and legs black ; irides 

 brown. 



Entire length 65 inches ; cnlraen 0*55 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 3'8 ; tarsus 1. 



The sexes are similar in plumage. 



Pig. Temm. PL Col. 257, fig. 3. 



20. Saxicola leucomela (Pall.). 



According to Von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 351) this 

 species comes during the spring and autumn migrations into 

 Egypt and Nubia. 



I think it possible that S. higens will be found inseparable 

 from the present bird. 



21. Saxicola sionacha, Riipp. Hooded Chat. 



(Plate II.) 



This species appears to be nowhere common, although it 

 ranges throughout Egypt and Nubia, and is a resident, fre- 

 quenting the desert and rocky districts. I only met with a 

 small colony of these Chats at El Kab, where I obtained a 

 male and female in full breeding-plumage on the 26th of 

 February. 



Male ill breeding-plumage. — Top of the head and nape, 

 lower part of the bach, upper and under tail-coverts, and 

 abdomen tohite ; tail white, with obsolete brown marks near 

 the tip of some of the feathers and at the apex, three quarters 

 of the two centre ones brown, with pale edgings ; rest of the 



