224 Mr. C. A. Wright/s Fifth Appendix to a 
I have specimens from Upper Egypt, both with and without 
the white head, and two very interesting examples—one having 
the head pure white, with one or two black feathers on the 
white ground, and the other having the head black inter¬ 
mixed with a few straggling white feathers—confirming the 
conclusion already arrived at, that S. leucocephala and S. leu- 
copy g a are one and the same species. 
270. Saxicola melanoleuca (Gfild.). Black-throated 
Chat. 
A specimen of Wheatear sent by me, some time ago, to Mr. 
Dresser, has been determined by that author to be Saxicola 
melanoleuca, an eastern form of the Busset Chat, as mentioned 
in his ‘ History of the Birds of Europe/ Other specimens, 
shot by me, are in my collection. One, a fine adult male, an 
exact counterpart of the plate, was shot on the 9th April, 
when several others were seen. The description, made at the 
time, was :—length 5| inches (15 cm.); beak and legs black; 
first primary shorter than the third; base of middle tail- 
feathers white. I shot a female in the same field shortly 
afterwards. The dimensions are precisely the same as the 
male. The top of the head and back are brown, very slightly 
tinged with isabelline ; wings darker ; extremity of tail-fea¬ 
thers and two thirds of central ones blackish brown. The 
patch on the throat and sides of the head is of the same shape 
and extent as in the male, but rendered indistinct by the fea¬ 
thers being tipped with grey, giving it a sooty look; breast 
rufescent cream-colour, which extends, more or less mixed 
with white, to the under tail-coverts; upper tail-coverts and 
basal ends of tail-feathers pure white; faint indications of a 
light superciliary streak; beak and legs brown. Another 
female, shot on the 18th of the same month and year, had 
the head and back much more isabelline, reminding one of 
the Desert Chat (S. isahellina ). A male obtained on the 24th 
April, 1868, appears to be still in immature plumage, having 
some resemblance to the female, but possessing the jet-black 
throat and auriculars, this colour reaching very low down the 
gular region and slightly above the eye. Another male, shot 
