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Show 1874.] THE GENES SAXICOLA. 221 Museum, obtained by Hemprich and Ehrenberg at Moileh in Arabia, this being the only specimen we have examined. According to Severtzoff, the female resembles the female of S. morio, but has a white throat. Hab. Bogos, Northern Abyssinia; Arabia; Turkestan. 4. SAXICOLA RUFA. Red or Russet-coloured Wheatear, Edw. Nat. Hist. p. 31, pi. 31 (1743), partim. Ficedula vitiflora rufa, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 459. no. 37 (1760), partim. Sylvia stapazina, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 530. no. 80 (1790, partim, nee Linn.). CEnanthe stapazina (L.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 428 (1818, nee Linn.). Saxicola stapazina (L.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 239 (1820, nee Linn.). Fitiflora rufa, C. L. Brehm, Vbg. Deutscbl. p. 406 (1831). Fitiflora stapazina (L.), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 224 (1850, nee Linn.). 1 Fitiflora paradoxa, C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1850). Adult male in summer. Crown, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, basal portion of tail, breast, and abdomen white, remainder of the plumage black; crown marked with grey ; back and breast slightly washed with rufous cream-colour ; the black on the throat does not extend nearly so far down as in S. melanoleuca; secondaries slightly tipped with dirty white ; central rectrices black, except at the base, where they are white; remainder white, broadly terminated with black, this colour extending on the outermost along the outer web and obliquely across the inner web nearly to the centre of the feather; beak and legs black; iris brown. Culmen 0*68, wing 3-65, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-95. Adult male in winter. The upper parts are pale ferruginous, often with a brownish tinge on the head ; the breast the same but lighter ; abdomen and under tail-coverts washed with dull rufous ; there are rufous edges to the wing-coverts and secondaries, and the quills are brownish ; the black of the throat is partly obscured by white edgings to the feathers. Adult female in breeding-plumage. Upper parts to the rump earthy brown; rump and upper tail-coverts white; tail as in the male; quills dark brown ; throat with the ear-coverts blackish, the feathers with pale edges; remainder of lower parts white, with a rufous tinge, which is more marked on the breast. Adult female in autumn. Upper parts to the rump dull rufous ; the secondaries and wing-coverts with rufous margins ; lower parts pale dull rufous, deepest on the breast; throat-feathers black at the base, the feathers edged with whitish. It is highly probable that old females of this species resemble the male ; but the series at our disposal does not enable us to determine |
