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are washed with rufous isabelline ; and the black throat is absent, the 

 entire underparts being sandy isabelline, rather greyer on the neck ; 

 wings dull dark brown, tail as in the male. 



Saxicola isabellina, Temm. nee Riipp., <S. pallida, Riipp., and S. 

 homochroa, Tristr. I. c, are all females of this species ; the remaining 

 names apply to the male. 8. pallida, Riipp. Atlas, pi. 34. fig. a, is 

 the female of <S. monacha, q. v. 



Flab. South-eastern Russia ; Southern and Central Asia as far 

 east as Central India and Yarkand ; Northern and North-eastern 

 Africa. 



10. Saxicola leucomela. 



Motacilla leucomela, Pall. Nov. Com. Petr. xiv. p. 584. no. 6, 

 pi. 22. fig. 3 (1770). 



Muscicapa leucomela, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 469.no. 7 (1790). 



Sylvia leucomela (Pall.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 138 (1815). 



(Enanthe pleschanka, Vieill. N. Diet. xxi. p. 423 (1818). 



Saxicola leucomela (Pall.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 243 (1820). 



Saxicola lugens, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 33 (1823) (type ex- 

 amined). 



Vitiflora leucomela (Pall.), Bp. Comp. List B. of Eur. & N. Am. 

 p. 16 (1838). 



Saxicola atricollis, v. Mull. Naumannia, 1851, iv. p. 28, "Abys- 

 sinia." 



? Saxicola capistrata, Gould, B. of Asia, part xvii. (ptil. hiem.), 

 1865. 



Adult male (Egypt). Crown and nape white, the former strongly 

 tinged with brownish grey ; back, scapulars, throat to the upper 

 part of the breast, sides of the head and neck, including a narrow 

 line above the eye, upper part of the flanks, under wing-coverts, and 

 axillaries glossy jet-black ; wings duller black than the back, 

 secondaries narrowly tipped with whitish ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts pure white ; tail as in S. morio, but narrowly tipped with 

 white ; breast and abdomen pure white ; crissum and under tail- 

 coverts pale rufous ; bill and legs black ; iris dark browu. Cul- 

 men 0"7, wing 3 - 8, tail 2 # 75, tarsus I '05. 



Female. Similar to the male. 



Hab. Southern and South-eastern Europe, Northern Africa, and 

 Western Asia as far east as Persia. 



11. Saxicola morio. 



Saxicola morio, Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol. aa, "Egypt and Arabia" 

 (1829). 



Saxicola leucomela, Gould, B. of Asia, part xviii. (1865). 

 Saxicola leucomela, Jerd. B. of I. ii. p. 131 (1863, nee Pall.). 

 Saxicola capistrata, Hume, Ibis, 1868, p. 233 (nee Gould). 



Adult male (Lahore). Crown and nape greyish white, with the 

 faintest wash of brown ; mantle, throat, and upper part of the breast, 



