1874.] 



THE GENUS SAXICOLA. 



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Adult male. Upper parts ashy grey ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 white ; wings and tail dusky black ; secondaries and wing-coverts 

 with pale margins ; the four outer rectrices with white margins ex- 

 tending to the tip in the outermost, and gradually diminishing till 

 in the fourth the white does not extend over half the basal portion ; 

 underparts ashy white, fading to white on the abdomen ; the first 

 long primary deeply emarginate on the inner web. Culmeu - 8, 

 wing 3'65, tail 2 , 5, tarsus 1'2. 



Fie. 2. 



Tail of Saxicola schlegeli. 



Female. Precisely similar to the male, except that the first long 

 primary is attenuated but not emarginate. 



Hah. Damaraland ; South Africa. 



S. schlegeli, var. minor. This bird, of which we have two speci- 

 mens, is smaller in size and paler and more sandy in colour than the 

 specimens above described ; but one example of the larger form is 

 equally pale, and all are from the same locality. The measurements 

 of the small variety are as follows : — culmen - 68-0"7, wing 3 - 4, 

 tail 2 - 3, tarsus l'l. 



34. Saxicola galtoni. 



Erythropygia galtoni, Strickland, Jardine's Contributions, 1852, 

 p. 147. 



Saxicola sperata, Layard, Birds of S. Africa, p. 107 (nee Lath. ?). 



Saxicola familiaris, Gurney, in Andersson's Birds of Damara Land, 

 p. 103 (nee Stephens). 



Upper parts to the rump hair-brown ; quills the same ; ear-coverts 

 rather brighter ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and basal portion of all 

 the tail-feathers, except the central pair, ferruginous ; central tail- 

 feathers and tips of the others brown ; remainder of the outer tail- 

 feathers ferruginous, the brown colour running some distance upon 

 the external web of the outer pair ; lower parts rather paler brown 



