438 CLASS AVES. 



Sax. Superciliaris, Licht Jan. 

 Fredric, Vail. O. A. t. ill. 



Olive-gray brown above ; throat yellow; crest mottled ; 

 belly and vent white ; a white patch over the eye. 



Sax. Thoracica, Licht, 



Crown slate-colour ; back olive ; oblique band on side 

 of head ending in a broad pectoral band, black ; throat 

 and middle of belly white ; hypochondria ferrugineous ; 

 quills black; secondaries and wing-coverts ferrugineous- 

 edged ; tail black ; length five inches and a half. Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



Sax. Moesta, Licht. 



Throat, neck, and middle of back black ; forehead, eye- 

 brows, chest, belly, vent, and rump white ; nape and 

 coverts, ashy ; quills brown, white-edged ; tail, base 

 under the coverts red, rest black ; length six inches 

 and a half, tarsi one inch. Egypt. 



Sax. Lugens, Licht. 



Throat, neck, middle of back, and wing-coverts black ; 

 crown, nape, chest, belly, and rump white ; vent isa- 

 bella ; quills black ; base of inner web white ; seconda- 

 ries white-tipt ; tail-feathers white, with a black sub- 

 apical band ; two middle feathers, from the middle to 

 end, black ; length six inches and a half, tarsi ten lines ; 

 young like the Wheat-ear, but throat blackish, and 

 tarsi shorter. 



Mot. Solitaria, Lewin's Birds, N. H. 



Above fuscous-brown ; forehead, chest, and belly fer- 

 rugineous-red ; throat whitish ; length five inches. 

 New Holland. 



