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



rectrices white at the hase, with a black tip, which is much broader 

 in the fourth from the outside than in the others ; underparts very- 

 little paler than the back, fading a little on the abdomen ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts same colour as the breast ; no emargination 

 in the inner webs of primaries. Culmen 0"9, wing 4*3, tail 3"05, 

 tarsus 1*3. 



Female. Sooty brown above, rather browner below ; ear-coverts 

 hair-brown ; rump and tail as in the male. This appears to be di- 

 stinguished from S. tractrac by having the four central tail-feathers 

 blackish brown throughout. 



Hab. South Africa, Colesburg, Eland's Post. 



32. Saxicola albicans. 



Saxicola albicans, Wahl. (Efv. K. Vet. Ak. F6rh. 1855, p. 213. 



Saxicola stricklandii, Bp., Gurney in Auderss. B. of Damara Land, 

 p. 105 (1872, nee Bp.). 



Male. Upper parts to the rump greyish isabelline ; rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and entire under surface of body white, with a faint 

 isabelline tinge ; quills dusky brown, with whitish margins and tips ; 



Tail of Saxicola albicans. 



secondaries much paler, with broader margins ; rectrices white at 

 the base and dusky brown on the terminal portion, with whitish tips 

 and margins, the latter broader on the outer feathers ; the dusky 

 terminal portion extends nearly halfway up the central rectrices, but 

 only to about one fourth of the outer ones. Culmen 0*8, wing 3*7, 

 tail 2-05, tarsus 1*2. 



Hab. Damaraland. 



Obs. This species closely resembles S. schlegeli, but is distin- 

 guishable by being a little paler in colour, by not having the first 

 long primary emarginate at the tip, and by having the entire basal 

 portion of the tail white. 



33. Saxicola schlegeli. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Erithacus schlegelii, Wahl. (Efv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. 1855, p. 213. 

 Saxicola modesta, Tristram, Ibis, 1869, p. 206 (type examined). 



