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SAXICOLA LEUCURA 



(BLACK CHAT.) 



White-tailed Thrush, Lath. Syn. iii. p. 49, "Gibraltar" (1783). 



Turdus Imcurus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 820 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Turdus leucurus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 344. no. 58 (1790, ex Lath.). 



(Enanthe leucura, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 422, "Spain, Southern France" (1818). 



Saxicola cachinnans, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 236, "Southern Europe" (1820). 



Vitiflora leucura (Gm.), Bp. Comp. List B. of Eur. & Am. p. 16, " Southern Europe" (1838). 



Saxicola leucura (Gm.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. p. 60, " Spain, Sicily, coasts of Mediter- 

 ranean, Egypt, and Arabia" (1840, partim). 



Saxicola leucurus (Gm.), Bp. Cat. Metod. Uccelli Eur. " S. Europe, Asia, Africa " (1842). 



Lromalasa leucura (Gm.), Bp. Consp. G. Av. i. p. 303, " S. Eur., Asia, Africa" (1850, partim). 



Vitiflora leucuros, C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. p. 225, "N.E. Afr. and S. Europe" (1855, partim). 



Dromolcea leucura (Gm.), A. E. Brehm, J. f. Orn. 1858, p. 55, " Spain;" Tristram, Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 296, " N.W. Africa." 



Motteux noir, Traquet noir, Traquet rieur, French ; Sacristan, Ruiblanco, Culiblanco, Papuda, 

 Pajaro negro, Spanish ; Culbianco abbrunato, Mataccinu niuru, Italian ; Bou Ilaoud, 

 Arabic. 



Figures notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 63 ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 197 ; Bree, B. of Eur. pi. to p. 118 ; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 88. 



6 ad. niger : remigibus sordidioribus, bruimescenti-nigris : supracaudalibus albis : rectricibus albis, centralibus 

 ad basin albis, ad apicem nigris, reliquis uigro apicatis : rostro et pedibus nigris : iride brunnea. 



$ ad. mari dissimilis, nigricanti-brunnea nee nigra: cauda, ut in mari, sed sordidiore. 



Adult Male (Guelt el SteL Algeria, 18th March). Entire body, excepting the upper tail-coverts, black, not 

 quite so jet-black as S. leucopyga; wings brownish black; upper tail-coverts pure white; tail white, 

 the central feathers with the terminal half black, the remainder broadly tipped with black, some having 

 a scarcely visible whitish tip to the black; under tail-coverts pure white; beak and legs black; iris 

 brown. Total length 6'5 inches, culmen 095, wing 3"7, tail 3 - 0, tarsus 1*07. The average size of six 

 specimens is : — culmen, 091, wing 3'66, tail 2"92, tarsus T08. 



Female (Boghar, Algeria). Much duller in colour than the male, being dull blackish brown instead of 

 black. 



Nestling (Sierra Nevada, 26th May). Dull black; feathers on the vent and under tail-coverts tipped with 

 dirty white; upper tail-coverts pure white; tail black, narrowly tipped with white. Compared with 



