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on the central pair only occupying the extreme base, and on the 

 outer pair covering half of the inner and the whole of the outer 

 web ; lower parts pale ashy brown, becoming whitish on the abdomen, 

 darker and rufous on the flanks ; ear-coverts similarly coloured to 

 the upper parts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; the ter- 

 minal portion of the first long primary is extremely narrow and 

 slightly curved. Culmen 063 inch, wing 3*15, tail 1*97, tarsus 1*1. 

 Hab. South Africa. 



36. Saxicola pile ata. 



Motacilla pileata, Gm. S. N. i. p. 965. no. 94, ex Lath. (1788). 



Le Traquet imitateur, Levaillant, Ois. d'Af. pis. 181, 182 (1805). 



(Enanthe imitatrix, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 422 (1818). 



Campicola livingstonii, Tristram, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 888. 



Male. Forehead and superciliary stripe running back to the nape 

 white ; crown black, passing on the nape into the rufous or cinnamon- 

 brown of the back, which becomes ferruginous towards the rump ; 

 lower rump and upper tail-coverts white ; quills hair-brown, with 

 narrow pale margins and pale tips to the secondaries ; central tail- 

 feathers black, outer feathers white on the basal half or rather more, 

 terminal portions black ; sides of the head and neck, including the 

 lores, space under the eye, and ear-coverts, and a broad band occu- 

 pying the greater portion of the breast, black ; chin and throat 

 white ; abdomen rufescent white ; flanks ferruginous ; lower tail- 

 coverts pale rufous. Culmen 08, wing 3"5, tail 2-65, tarsus 1*35. 



S. livingstonii is considered a good and distinct species by Finsch 

 and Hartlaub (Vog. Ost.-Afr. p. 251). They say that the white of 

 the forehead and black of the crown are less extensively developed, 

 that the pectoral band is much narrower, and the size smaller. The 

 band across the chest is certainly less developed ; but its breadth is 

 variable in Cape specimens ; and as with a series before us we can 

 detect no other distinction, we doubt if S. livingstonii be worthy of 

 separation. 



Hab. South Africa generally. 



37. Saxicola bifasciata. 



Saxicola bifasciata, Temm. PI. Col. 472. fig. 2. 



Saxicola spectabilis, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 428, pi. 23. 



Campicola bifasciata (Temm.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 10. 



1 Le grand Motteux ou cul-blanc du Cap de B.-Esperance, Buff. 

 Ois. vi. p. 135 (1783). 



1 Motacilla hottentotta, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 965 (1788, ex Buff.). 



1 Sylvia hottentotta (Gm.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 531. no. 82 

 (1790). 



Adult male. A narrow frontal line and broad supercilia extend- 

 ing backwards along the sides of the head yellowish buff; crown 

 and nape blackish brown ; back the same, with brown edges to the 

 feathers ; scapulars, sides of the back, and rump isabelline or yel- 

 lowish buff ; wing-coverts and tail black ; quills blackish brown ; 



