18/4.] THE GENUS SAXICOLA. 229 



Adult male (Algeria). Entire head and body black, excepting the 

 upper and under tail-coverts, which are pure white ; wings brownish 

 black ; terminal half of the central rectrices and tips of remaining 

 rectrices black ; rest of the tail white. Culmen - 91, wing 3*66, 

 tail 2-92, tarsus 1-08. 



Female. Much duller in colour than the male, being dull brownish 

 black, instead of black. 



Hab. Southern Europe and North-western Africa. 



17. Saxicola opistholeuca. 



Saxicola leucura, Blyth, J. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 131 (nee 6m.). 



Saxicola opistholeuca, Strickl. Jard. Contr. to Orn. (1849) 

 p. 60. n. 10. 



Saxicola leucuroides, Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. ii. p. 130 (nee 

 Guer.). 



Dromoleea opistholeuca (Str.), Gould, B. of Asia, part xvii. 

 6 only (1865). 



Adult male. Head and body glossy black, except the rump, upper 

 and lower tail-coverts, and lower part of the abdomen, which are 

 pure white ; wings blackish brown, lighter on the inner webs, cen- 

 tral rectrices white on the basal third, the rest black, remaining tail- 

 feathers white, broadly terminated with black. Culmen 0'6, wing 

 3-65, tail 2-8, tarsus 09. 



Female. Sooty black wherever the male is pure black. 



Hab. North-western India. 



18. Saxicola isabellina. 



1 Motacilla strapazina, Pall. Zool. Ros.-As. i. p. 474, nee stapa- 

 zina, Linn. (181 1). 



Saxicola isabellina, Riipp. Atlas, p. 52, t. 34 5 (1826), type ex- 

 amined. 



Saxicola saltator, Menetr. Cat. Rais. p. 30 (1832). 



Saxicola saltatrix (Men.), Keys, et Bias. Wirbelth. Europ. pp. lix 

 et 192 (1840). 



Saxicola cenanthe /3, id. 



Saxicola squalida, Evers. Add. ad Zool. p. 16 (1842). 



Saxicola valida, Licht. Nomencl. p. 35, nomen nudum (1854), 

 type examined. 



Saxicola opistholeuca $ (nee 3 ), Gould, Birds of Asia, part xvii. 



Saxicola cenanthe, Jerdon, B. of India, ii. p. 132 (1863), nee 

 Linn. 



Adult male. Upper parts to the rump dull greyish isabelline or 

 sandy brown, a white superciliary stripe from the base of the bill, 

 extending back over the ear-coverts ; lores black ; ear-coverts brown ; 

 narrow space on the rump and upper tail-coverts white ; basal por- 

 tion of all rectrices white, tips black ; the latter colour extending 

 over half or rather more of the central rectrices and about one third 

 of the remainder ; quills brown, the tips rather darker ; edges and 

 tips of the secondaries pale ; lower parts isabelline, whitish on the 



