58 On tivo Species of Passerine Birds. 
I append the following full description of the types of this 
Acredula in my collection : — 
AcREDULA sicuLA. (Plate II.) 
Adult male (from Bosco di Fienzza, Sicily ; February 3rd, 
1901). Forehead and crown light brown, with an ill-defined 
median whitish stripe ; lores and space immediately sur- 
rounding the eyes whitish; a collar round the nape dull 
black ; entire back and rump grey ; upper tail-coverts 
blackish -, wings blackish brown, the secondaries edged with 
white ; tail with its four central feathers black, the next 
adjoining pair black, very slightly fringed with white on the 
outer web, the next pair rather more fringed with white, 
and the two exterior pairs distinctly tipped with white and 
having the entire outer web white ; chin white ; throat and 
upper breast white, with a slight admixture of darker 
feathers; lower breast and abdomen .whitish, tinged with 
pale brown, and becoming vinous rose on the flanks and 
crissum; under tail-coverts vinous rose, tipped with whitish. 
Irides dark hazel, eyelids yellowish ; bill and feet blackish 
brown. Total length 5 inches, wing 2".25, culmen '20, 
tarsus "60. 
Adidt female (from Bosco di Fienzza, Sicily; February 3rd, 
1901). Plumage, colouring, and soft parts almost identical 
with those of the male. Total length 5 inches, wing 2'20, 
culmen "20, tarsus '60. 
In a recent number of the ' Bulletin ' of the British 
Ornithologists'' Club (see vol. x. p. xvii) a new species of 
Chat was described by me under the name of Saccicola 
cummingi. The specimen from which the description was 
taken is in the British Museum collection, and appears to 
have been wrongly identified as S. moesia Licht. 
This Chat was procured by Mr. W. D. Cumming at Fao, 
in the Persian Gulf, and as it is apparently a rare species — 
the present example being, so far as I am aware, the only one 
known to exist in any collection — I have thought it well to 
have the accompanying figure of it made for 'The Il)is.'' 
