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SAXICOLA LEUCOPYGA. 



(WHITE-RUMPED CHAT.) 



Saxicola leucura (Gm.), Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 32, " Egypt, Nubia " (1823, nee Gm.). 

 Saxicola cursoria, Audouin & Savig. Desc. de l'Egyp. p. 274, pi. 5. fig. 1 (1825, nee 



Vieill.). 

 Saxicola leucura (Gm.), Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 36, "Arabia, Egypt, Nubia" (1854, 



nee Gm.). 

 Vitiflora leucopyga, C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. p. 225, " N.E. Africa and S. Europe" (1855). 

 Vitiflora leucuros, C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1855, partim). 

 Lutucoa leucopyga, Paul v. Wiirtt., fide C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1855). 

 Lutucoa leucocapilla, Paul v. Wiirtt., fide C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1855). 

 Dromol&a Uucocephala, A. E. Brebm, Journ. f. Orn. 1858, p. 62, "Egypt." 

 Dromolaea Imcopygaia, A. E. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 66, "Africa." 

 Dromolaea leucopygia, Br., Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 297, "Algeria." 



Dromolaea monacha, Loche, Exp. Scient. de l'Alg. i. p. 199, "Algeria" (1867, nee Riipp.). 

 Dromolaea nigra, Loche, torn. cit. p. 200, "Algeria" (1867). 



% Saxicola leucuroides, Heuglin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 358. no. 308, "Abyssinia" (1869). 

 \ Saxicola syenitica, Heuglin, torn. cit. p. 358, no. 309, "Upper Egypt" (1869). 

 Saxicola leucocephala (Br.), Heuglin, torn. cit. p. 359. no. 310, "N.E. Africa, West Africa, 



Algeria, Palestine" (1869). 



,S ad. niger, remigibus magis fuscescentibus : pileo, supracaudalibus, subcaudalibus crissoque pure albis : 

 rectricibus centralibus ad basin albis, ad apicem nigris vix albido apicatis, scapis nigris, reliquis albis 

 ante apicem sordide nigricantibus : rostro et pedibus nigris : hide fusca. 



Av. jun. praecedenti similis, sed sordidior, pileo dorso concolori : rostro et pedibus paullo pallidioribus. 



Pullus sordide fuscescenti-niger : supracaudalibus, subcaudalibus crissoque albis : rectricibus centralibus 

 fuscescenti-nigris, albido apicatis, reliquis albis versus apicem nigricante notatis. 



Adult Male (Nubia) . Head above, nape, rump, upper tail-coverts, and a couple of feathers in one wing pure 

 white, the under tail-coverts and crissum being also of this colour ; central tail-feathers on the terminal 

 half and the shafts black, the remaining portion being pure white ; rest of the rectrices white, except 

 towards the tip, where there is an irregular blackish band; rest of the plumage glossy jet-black, with 

 steel-blue reflections, except the wings, which are dull blackish ; beak and legs black ; iris brown. 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 082, wing 4*1, tail 2-9, tarsus 1/1. 



Female. Undistinguishable from the male in plumage. 



Breeding-plumage of the first year. Crown black, with one or two white feathers ; rest of the plumage 

 similar to the adult male above described, but the colours are rather duller. 



