1874.] THE GENXJS SAXICOLA. 221 



Museum, obtained by Hemprich and Ehrenberg at Moileh in Arabia, 

 this being the only specimen we have examined. According to 

 Severtzoff, the female resembles the female of S. morio, but has a 

 white throat. 



Sab. Bogos, Northern Abyssinia ; Arabia ; Turkestan. 



4. Saxicola rufa. 



Red or Russet-coloured Wheatear, Edw. Nat. Hist. p. 31, pi. 31 

 (1/43), partim. 



Ficedula vitiflora rufa, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 459. no. 37 (1760), 

 partim. 



Sylvia stapazina, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 530. uo. 80 (1790, partim, 

 nee Linn.). 



(Enanthe stapazina (L.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 428 (1818, 

 nee Linn.). 



Saxicola stapazina (L.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 239 (1820, 

 nee Linn.). 



Vitiflora rufa, C. L. Brehm, VSg. Deutschl. p. 406 (1831). 



Vitiflora stapazina (L.), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 224 (1850, 

 uec Linn.). 



? Vitiflora paradoxa, C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1850). 



Adult male in summer. Crown, back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, basal portion of tail, breast, and abdomen white, remainder 

 of the plumage black ; crown marked with grey ; back and breast 

 slightly washed with rufous cream-colour ; the black on the throat 

 does not extend nearly so far down as in S. melanoleuca ; secon- 

 daries slightly tipped with dirty white ; central rectrices black, 

 except at the base, where they are white ; remainder white, broadly 

 terminated with black, this colour extending on the outermost alon^ 

 the outer web and obliquely across the inner web nearly to the centre 

 of the feather; beak and legs black; iris brown. Culmen - 68, 

 wing 3 - 65, tail 2-6, tarsus - 95. 



Adult male in winter. The upper parts are pale ferruginous, 

 often with a brownish tinge on the head ; the breast the same but 

 lighter ; abdomen and under tail-coverts washed with dull rufous ; 

 there are rufous edges to the wing-coverts aud secondaries, and the 

 quills are brownish ; the black of the throat is partly obscured by 

 white edgings to the feathers. 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. Upper parts to the rump 

 earthy brown; rump and upper tail-coverts white; tail as in the 

 male ; quills dark brown ; throat with the ear-coverts blackish, the 

 feathers with pale edges; remainder of lower parts white, with a 

 rufous tinge, which is more marked on the breast. 



Adult female in autumn. Upper parts to the rump dull rufous ; 

 the secondaries and wing-coverts with rufous margins ; lower parts 

 pale dull rufous, deepest on the breast ; throat-feathers black at the 

 base, the feathers edged with whitish. 



It is highly probable that old females of this species resemble the 

 male ; but the series at our disposal does not enable us to determine 



