18/4.] THE GENUS SAXICOLA. 231 



Saxicola leucorhoid.es , Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 291 (nee Gue'r.), 

 desc. nulla. 



Saxicola heuglini, Finsch & Hartl. Vbg. N.O.-Afr. p. 259 (1870) 

 (type examined). 



Type. Upper parts dull dark blackish brown, some of the feathers 

 on the back margined with dull rufous ; quills narrowly tipped, 

 secondaries and wing-coverts broadly margined and tipped with 

 dull rufous ; central rectrices black, except at the base, where they 

 are white ; rest of tail-feathers white on the basal and black on the 

 terminal half, narrowly tipped with white ; underparts white on the 

 breast, lower part of the throat, flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 washed with bright rufous ; upper tail-coverts white ; over the eye an 

 indistinct whitish line. Wing 3 - 35, tail 2-45, tarsus 1'05, culm. 0"52. 



Hab. Highlands of Abyssinia. 



22. Saxicola lugubris. 



Saxicola lugubris, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 77, pi. 28. fig. 1 

 (1840) (type examined). 



Saxicola brehmii, Salvad. Att. Ac. Tor. 1870, p. 508 (type ex- 

 amined). 



1 Saxicola leucuroides, Guer. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 162. 



Adult male. Crown and nape brownish grey, feathers with black 

 shafts ; rump and upper tail-coverts and basal portion of all the 

 rectrices rufous, amounting to about half the length of the central 

 and two thirds of the remaining rectrices ; centre of abdomen 

 whitish; under tail- coverts buff; rest of plumage jet-black. Culm. 

 07, wing 3-3, tail 2*4, tarsus 0'9. 



Adult female. Is said not to differ from the male in plumage, but 

 is slightly smaller (fide Von Heuglin). 



The head is very much darker in some specimens than in others, 

 being sometimes scarcely paler than the back ; and in one skin thus 

 coloured there is no white on the abdomen. Such a specimen, we 

 think, must have been the type of S. leucuroides, which has hitherto 

 always been identified with S. opistholeuca, Strickland (q. v.). But 

 Guerin's description of S. leucuroides runs thus : — " Tota atra, cauda 

 basi uropygioque imo rufescenti-albidis." Now the tail is, so far as 

 we know, never rufescent at the base in S. opistholeuca ; and that 

 species, moreover, has not been found by any observer in Abys- 

 sinia, whence the bird described by Guerin was brought by Ferret 

 and Galinier. No type of Guerin's species exists in the Paris 

 Museum. 



The base of the tail-feathers is occasionally white ; and this is the 

 form described by Salvadori under the name of S. brehmii. 



Hab. Abyssinian highlands. 



23. Saxicola atmori. 



Saxicola atmorii, Tristram, Ibis, 1869, p. 206. 



Type. Head and body above and below smoky black, upper tail- 

 coverts white ; central rectrices black, outer rectrices white, tipped 



