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a. 3 . Konduro, Abyssinia, 25 March, 1899. (No. 448.) 
b. 3 . Mendi, Abyssinia, 1 April, 1899. (No. 468.) 
Iris brown; bill and legs black. 
[Seen at the village of Balti, at the Gibbeh (palace) at 
Addis Abbeba, and in the neighbourhood of one or two 
other villages, always in the part most inhabited. I did not 
get a chance of shooting one till we reached Konduro, where, 
cn March 25th, they were collecting into parties of from 
four to eight preparatory to migration. Like the rest of the 
Chats, they were noticeably plumper and in better condition 
previous to migration.—L.] 
133. Saxicola isabellina. 
Saxicola isabellina Cretzsch.; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
v. p. 399 (1881); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 485; Lort 
Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 412 [N. Somaliland] ; Hawker, Ibis, 
1899, p. 72. 
a. 3 • Lake Harrar Meyer, Abyssinia, 30 December, 
1898. (No. 47.) 
b. 3» Ketchen Walia, Abyssinia, 16 January, 1899. 
(No. 201.) 
Iris brown; bill and legs black. 
[This Chat inhabits the high plateaux and is specially 
attracted by open sandy soil, where it is often of a very light 
colour, at times almost grey.—L.] 
134. Saxicola bottas. 
Saxicola bottce Bonap.; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. v. 
p. 401 (1881). 
Campicola bottce Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xxi. p. 164 
(1884), & xxvi. p. 262 (1888). 
3 . Balti, Abyssinia, 23 January, 1899. (No. 268.) 
Iris brown; bill and legs black. 
[This Chat soars and sings on the wing like a Sky-Lark. 
It has a curious habit, when danger approaches, of drawing 
itself up to its full height, its legs being unusually long for 
those of a Saxicola . It is a bird of the high plateaux, but 
was seen in March about the Didesa valley, possibly migrating 
north.—L.] 
