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allen’s naturalist’s library. 
Sixicola rubicola , Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 339 (1873). 
Pratincola rubicola , Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p. 263, pis. 39, 40- 
(1873); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., iv., p. 185 (1879)7 
Seeb., Br. B., i., p. 317 (1883) ; B. 0 . U. List Br. B., p. 
8 (1883); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B., pt. ii. (1886); Saun- 
ders, Man., p. 29 (1889) ; Wyatt, Br. B., pi. 2, figs. 1, 2 
(1894). 
Adult Male. — General colour above black, generally with some 
obsolete sandy-buff edges to the feathers, these being lost only 
in the height of the breeding-season ; upper tail-coverts white, 
spotted with black ; wing-coverts black, the inner, median, and 
greater coverts white, forming a large wing-patch ; primary- 
coverts and quills blackish-brown, with sandy brown margins ; 
tail-feathers blackish-brown ; head, sides of face, and throat 
black, with a broad white patch on the sides of the neck, ex- 
tending from behind the ear-coverts to the shoulder ; fore-neck 
and breast orange-chestnut, inclining to pale cinnamon on the 
sides of the body, the feathers being blackish, with pale cinna- 
mon ends ; the abdomen and under tail-coverts isabelline-buff; 
thighs light brown ; axillaries white, blackish towards the base ; 
under wing-coverts black, with white edges ; bill and feet black ; 
iris brown. Total length, 5-3 inches; culmen, 0-5 ; wing, 27 ; 
tail, i'8 ; tarsus, o'g. 
Adult Female. — Different from the male, and lacking the black 
on the head; the upper surface dark sandy-brown, streaked 
with black centres to the feathers ; the white wing-patch not so 
large, and the upper tail-coverts rufous, centred with black, not 
white as in the male; tail-feathers dark brown, with narrow 
whitish edges; head like the back, and similarly streaked ; eye- 
lid whitish ; lores dusky ; ear-coverts dark brown ; throat ashy 
whitish, with a large black patch on the lower throat ; sides of 
neck with a small white patch, much less than in the male ; 
remainder of under-parts from the fore-neck downwards orange- 
chestnut, the centre of the breast and abdomen isabelline. 
Total length, 5 inches; wing, 2 '55. 
Young. — Dark brown above, spotted with triangular buff 
centres to the feathers, which have also blackish edges ; rump 
and upper tail-coverts rufous, spotted with black; head darker 
