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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 



ON 



TRISTRAM'S CHAT and the RED-RUMPED CHAT. 



When Tristram's Chat and the Red-rumped Chat were figured and described in Parts XVII. 

 and XVI. respectively of the present work, I had not had an opportunity of examining the types 

 in the collection at Berlin, and considered that Saxicola philothamna, Tristram, was quite distinct 

 from Saxicola mcesta, Licht., especially as both were stated to be in the Berlin Museum. On 

 visiting Berlin, however, in September last (1873) I ascertained that the specimen labelled 

 Saxicola philothamna is merely a female, whereas Lichtenstein's type of Saxicola mcesta is the 

 adult male of the same species in full summer plumage. This being the case, the bird I described 

 in Part XVII. of the present work, under the name of Tristram's Chat must stand as Saxicola 

 mossta, the synonymy being as follows : — 



Saxicola mcesta, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 33, "Egypt" (1823). 

 Saxicola philothamna, Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 58, "Algeria." 



I also find that Saxicola chrysopygia, De Fil., which was put with a query as a synonym of 

 S. philothamna in Part XVII., does not apply to that species, but is a distinct bird. 



With regard to the species described and figured in Part XVI. of the present work under 

 the name of the Red-rumped Chat [Saxicola mcesta), on investigating with Mr. Blanford the 

 types in the Hemprich and Ehrenberg collection, I found that the bird described by Ehrenberg 

 as Saxicola xanthoprymna, is nothing else but an immature example of the bird I have 

 described as the Red-rumped Chat, the synonymy of which will accordingly be as follows : — 



Saxicola xanthoprymna, Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol. dd, " Nubia" (1829). 

 Saxicola erythropygia, Taylor, Ibis, 1867, p. 61, "Egypt." 



The type of this species in the Berlin Museum is a younger bird than the one obtained and 

 described by Mr. Cavendish Taylor, of which I have given a figure ; and I have deemed it 

 advisable to figure it also, which I have done, and have likewise on the same Plate figured a 

 male of Tristram's Chat (Saxicola mcesta) in full breeding-plumage, in which stage it was 

 described by Lichtenstein. 



