230 MESSRS. BLANFORD AND DRESSER ON [Apr. 21, 



chin and darkest on the breast ; wing-lining white ; bill and legs 

 black. Wing 3-95, tail 245, tarsus 118, culmen 06. 



Adult female only differs in having the black on the lores less 

 distinct. In winter the colours are a trifle duller, and the pale 

 edgings on the wing-coverts and secondaries broader. 



Hab. South-eastern Europe ; Eastern and North-eastern Africa, 

 and Western Asia as far east as North-western India. 



19. Saxicola CHRYSOPYGIA. 



Saxicola chrysopygia, De Filippi, Ann. Zool. Genova, ii. p. 381 

 (1863). 



Saxicola kingi, Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 29. 



Adult. Upper parts to the rump greyish earthy brown ; lores 

 dark grey ; a greyish white superciliary line from the nostril over 

 the eye ; ear-coverts rufescent brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 pale rufous ; base of tail-feathers bright ferruginous ; terminal por- 

 tion (about one half of the central and one fourth of the remain- 

 ing rectrices) dark brown ; quills very little darker than the back. 

 Young birds (and adults in winter plumage ?) have broad rufescent 

 margins to the secondaries and wing-coverts, and pale rufescent tips 

 to the quills and rectrices ; chin and upper throat greyish white ; 

 breast brownish grey ; abdomen paler and more rufescent ; lower 

 tail-coverts buff ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; iris dark 

 brown ; bill and legs white. Wing 3-5, tail 225, tarsus 1-02, cul- 

 men 0'7. Sexes alike. 



Hab. Persia ; Baluchistan ; North-western India. 



There can, we think, be no question that this bird is the S. chryso- 

 pygia of De Filippi, as it was collected by Mr. Blanford in Persia 

 and agrees with De Filippi's description. Unfortunately no speci- 

 men was preserved by the describer. It agrees perfectly with Mr. 

 Hume's description of S. kingi. 



2. ^Ethiopian Species (non-migratory). 



20. Saxicola bottle. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 1.) 



Saxicola bottce, Bp. Comptes Rendus, 1854, p. 7 (type examined). 



Saxicola ferruginea, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 234 (descript. 

 nulla). 



Saxicola frenata, Heugl. Jour. f. Ornith. 1869, p. 158. 



Upper parts to the rump dull brown ; a black line through the 

 eye from the lores to the ear-coverts ; narrow line above lores, upper 

 tail-coverts, and basal portion of rectrices white ; terminal half of 

 outer tail-feathers, and a much larger proportion of the central ones, 

 black ; quills dark brown ; chin and throat white ; breast dull ferru- 

 ginous ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts the same but paler. Wing 

 3-75, tail 2-35, tarsus 1*2, culmen 0'63. Sexes alike. 



Hab. Highlands of Abyssinia ; Sennaar, Nubia ? 



21. Saxicola hetjglini. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 2.) 



Saxicola intermedia, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 26. no. 239 (1855), 

 desc. nulla. 



