104 BLACK-EABED WEE ATE AB. 



liglit bufF; scapularies a mixture of buff and black feathers ; greater 

 wing coverts, two upper tail feathers, lower tliird of tail underneath, 

 and a band extending from the gape along the entire cheek and side 

 of head, glossy black. Wing primaries hair brown, secondaries darker; 

 beak and legs, black; iris, dark brown. 



The female, according to Degland, differs sensibly from the male 

 during the breeding season; the side of the head is brown, mixed 

 with russet; the throat is dirty white; the wings less black, and that 

 of the tail quills less extended. In autumn the changes of both sexes 

 are similar: more russet on the upper and lower parts, and the feathers 

 of the wings deeply bordered with russet. 



The young before the first moult resemble the young of the Rock 

 Thrush: an ashy russet, darker below, with each feather bordered 

 with brown, and marked in the centre with a yellowish spot; middle 

 of the abdomen and under tail coverts, of this tint; middle and 

 greater wing coverts broadly bordered with russet. After the first 

 moult the young only difier from the female in autumn, by the wing 

 having no trace of brown on the side of the head, and by the throat 

 being russet. 



My figures of this bird and its egg are from specimens with which 

 I have been obligingly favoured by the Eev. Canon Tristram. 



Figured by Brisson, Orn., vol. iii., pi. 25, fig. 4; Edwards, pi. 31, 

 (a good figure, but given as the female of S. stapazina;) Vieillot, 

 Faun. Fr., pi. 85, figs. 1, 2, and 3; Roux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 200, 

 {adult male;) Bouteille, Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 22, fig. 4; Gould, B. 

 of E., pi. 92; Dresser, B. of E. 



