SYLVIAD^. 



Sa. saprd pallide rufa^ infra alba; fascid oculari nigra; alis 

 rectricibusque duabus intermediis nigris, ceteris albis apicibus 

 nigris. 



Wheatear above pale rufous, beneath white ; with a black stripe 

 through the eyes ; the wings and two middle tail-feathers black ; 

 the rest white, with black tips. 



Black-eared Wheatear. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. P' 56. 



Inhabits Southern Europe. Length six inches 

 and a quarter : the general colour of the plumage above 

 pale rufous, beneath white : through the eye, from 

 the beak, a broad black patch, which extends over the 

 ears : tail for three-fourths of the length white, the 

 rest black ; but the wings and middle tail-feathers I 

 are black, and the outermost chiefly so : beak and 

 legs black. The female has the patch on the ears 

 dusky, marked with rufous : nape and back rufous- 

 brown : throat dirty white : breast pale rufous : the 

 rest of the plumage nearly as in the male. 



Sp. 5. Sa. leucomela. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. i. 243. Temm. 

 PI. Col. 2^7. f. 3.— Muscicapa leucomela. Steph. v. x, 328.-- 

 Muscicapa melanoleuca. Steph. v. x. 328, — Eastern Europe. 



Sp. 6. Sa. leucothoa. Cuvier. 



Vi. leucorrhoa. Steph. v. x. 574. pi. 52. — Africa. 



Sp. 7. Sa. Hottentotta. 



Vi. Hottentotta. Steph. v. x.-p. 573. — L'imitateur. Le Vaill. 

 Ols. d'Afriq. iv. pi. 181. male j 182. young. — Africa. 



Sp. 8. Sa. familiaris. 



Sa. griseo-Juscaj infra pallidiore ; pectore, hypochondriis, auribus 



uropygioque rujis ; rectricibiis duabus intermediis totis Jiiscis, 



reliquis Jiiscis rufo marginntis. 

 Grey-brown Wheatear, paler beneath ; with the breast, flanks, 



ears, and rump rufous 3 the two middle tail-feathers entirely 



brown, the rest brown edged with rufous. 

 V. XIII. P. II. iG 



