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mSECTIVORJE. 



Family SYLVIIDM. 



Genus Saxicola. fBechstein.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak slender, straight, and rather broader than deep 

 at the base, where it is surrounded by a few hairs; upper mandible 

 slightly obtuse, sloped and curved only at the point; nostrils oval, half 

 closed by a membrane; tarsus long, slender, and compressed; outer toe 

 connected by a membrane to the middle. Wings of medium length, 

 reaching to the middle of the tail when closed; first quill about half as 

 long as the second, the second shorter than the third or fourth, which 

 are the longest; the greater wing coverts much shorter than the quills. 

 Tail medium length, slightly rounded or square, consists of twelve feathers. 



BLACK WHEATEAE. 



Saxicola leucura. 



Tu7-diis leucurus, Gmelin; Syst., 820, 1788. 



" " Latham; Ind., 1796. 



CEnanthe leueura, Vieillot; Diet, et Faun. Fr., 1818. 



Saxicola cacchinans, Temminck; Manual, 1820. Schinz. 



" " SCHLEGEL. 



" leucura, Keyserling and Blasius; Die Wirbelt, 



1840. MtJHLE. 



" leuGuroides, Brooks; Ibis, 1869. 



Vitt (flora leucura, Bonaparte, 1838. 



Dromolaa leucura, Cabanis. Bonaparte. Tristram; Ibis. 



" " LOCHE. 



Traquet Rieur, Of the French. . 

 Schwarzer Stemschmdtzer, Of Meyer. 



Culbianco Ahlrunato, Of Savi and Marmora. 



Specific Characters. — Plumage black, or blackish, with the upper and lower 

 tail coverts white; tail white, with half of the two middle quills and the 

 posterior fourth of the laterals black. Length of male sent me by the 

 Rev. H. B. Tristram, seven inches; female six inches and a quarter. 

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