364 ZOOLOOY. 



thick jungle, nor does it perch on the tops of bushes like 

 the true SaxicolcB. Cercomela melanura is common at 

 Aden, and apparently throughout the district of the 

 Eed Sea. 



137. Pratincola rubetra, L. 



Riipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 165.— Heugl. Journ. f. Om. 1869, p. 167 ; 

 et Om. N. 0. Afr. p. 338. 



T only once met with this species, when T shot a 

 young bird at Rairo in Habab, about the middle of 

 August, at an elevation of 3,000 feet above the sea. 



138. Pi pastor, Strickland. 



Strickktid, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844, xiii p. 410, 

 Saxicola pratincola syhilla, Heugl. Joum. f. Om. 1869, p. 188 ; er 

 Om. N. O. Afr. p. 341. 



Not rare on the highlands. As mentioned by Von 

 Heuglin, this bird appears to breed in Abyssinia. I shot 

 specimens at Senaf^ at the end of May. I did not 

 obtain P. rubicola. All my specimens have a broad 

 white uropygium, more or less tinged with ferruginous. 

 Dimensions : — 



139 



Saxicola Hemprichii, Ehr. Symb. Phys. — HeugL Joum. f. Omith, 



1869, p. 168. 

 Pratincola rubicola SemprichU, HeugL Om. N. 0. Afr. p. 339. 



A single male specimen from the shores of Annesley 

 Bay diflfers from those from the highlands by having 

 much more of the basal portion of the tail-feathers white- 



