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SAXICOLA RUFA. 



(RUSSET CHAT.) 



Red or Russet-coloured Wlieatear, Edw. Nat. Hist. p. 31, pi. 31 (1743), partim. 



Ficedula vitiflora rufa, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 459, no. 37 (1760), partim. 



Sylvia stapazina, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 530, no. 80 (1790, partim, nee Linn.). 



(Enanthe stapazina (L.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 428 (1818, nee Linn.). 



Saxicola stapazina (L.), Teram. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 239, " S. Europe " (1820, nee Linn.). 



Vitiflora rufa, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 406, " coasts of Mediterranean" (1831). 



Vitiflora stapazina (L.), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 224, "Greece, N.E. Africa" (1850. 



nee Linn.). 

 IVitiflora paradoxa, C. L. Brehm, ut supra, "Egypt, S.E. Europe" (1850). 

 Saxicola stapazina auctt., nee Linn. 



Traquet stapazin, Cul-blanc roux, Motteux a gorge noire, French ; Caiada, Portuguese ; 

 Ruiblanca, Cagachin, Spanish ; Dumnifcan, Maltese ; Monachella con la gola nera, Italian ; 

 MUM, Arabic. 



Figure notabiles. 



Edwards, /. c, male; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pis. 65, 66, 67; Susemihl, Vog. Eur. iv. 

 taf. 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 91 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 90. figs. 1, 2 ; Fritsch, 

 Vog. Eur. taf. 21. fig. 19. 



c? ad. (est. albus : gula et capite laterali alisque nigris : rectricibus centralibus nigris, ad basin albis, reliquis 

 albis ad apicem nigris et vix albido apicatis, rectrice externa, in pogonio externo dimidio apicali nigro ; 

 pileo griseo lavato : dorso et pectore vix rufescente lavatis ; rostro et pedibus nigris : hide fusca. 



c? ad. ptil. autumn, prsecedenti similis, sed dorso, capite, pectore et collo conspicue rufescentibus. 



2 ptil. autumn, capite supra et dorso sordide rufescentibus : alis nigris : primariis vix albido apicatis, secundariis 

 tectricibusque alarum conspicue rufescente marginatis et apicatis : uropygio et supracaudalibus albis : 

 cauda ut in mare adulto picturata, : subtiis rufescenti-isabellina : gula et facie laterali nigris, plumis 

 omnibus pallide rufescente apicatis. 



Adult Male in summer (Gibraltar) . Crown, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, basal portion of tail, breast, 

 and abdomen white, remainder of the plumage black ; crown marked with grey ; back and breast 

 slightly washed with rufous cream-colour; the black on the throat does not extend nearly so far down 

 as in S. melanoleuca ; secondaries slightly tipped with dirty white ; central rectrices black, except at the 

 base, where they are white ; remainder white, broadly terminated with black, this colour extending on 

 the outermost along the outer web and obliquely across the inner web nearly to the centre of the 

 feather ; beak and legs black ; iris brown. Total length 5| inches, culmen 068, wing 3 - 65, tail 2'6, 

 tarsus - 95. 



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