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Show 236 MESSRS. BLANFORD AND DRESSER ON [Apr. 21, rectrices white at the base, with a black tip, which is much broader in the fourth from the outside than in the others; underparts very little paler than the back, fading a little on the abdomen ; axillaris and under wing-coverts same colour as the breast; no emargination in the inner webs of primaries. Culmen 0'9, wing 4*3, tail 3 0 5, tarsus 1*3. Female. Sooty brown above, rather browner below; ear-coverts hair-brown ; rump and tail as in the male. This appears to be distinguished from S. tractrac by having the four central tail-feathers blackish brown throughout. Hab. South Africa, Colesburg, Eland's Post. 32. SAXICOLA ALBICANS. Saxicola albicans, Wahl. CEfv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. 1855, p. 213. Saxicola stricklandii, Bp., Gurney in Anderss. B. of DamaraLand, p. 105 (1872, nee Bp.). Male. Upper parts to the rump greyish isabelline ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and entire under surface of body white, with a faint isabelline tinge ; quills dusky brown, with whitish margins and tips; Fig. 1. Tail of Saxicola albicans. secondaries much paler, with broader margins ; rectrices white at the base and dusky brown on the terminal portion, with whitish tips and margins, the latter broader on the outer feathers ; the dusky terminal portion extends nearly halfway up the central rectrices, but only to about one fourth of the outer ones. Culmen 0*8, wing 3 7 , tail 2-05, tarsus 1*2. Hab. Damaraland. Obs. This species closely resembles S. schlegeli, but is distinguishable by being a little paler in colour, by not having the first long primary emarginate at the tip, and by having the entire basal portion of the tail white. 33. SAXICOLA SCHLEGELI. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 2.) Erithacus schlegelii, Wahl. (Efv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. 1855, p. 213. Saxicola modesta, Tristram, Ibis, 1869, p. 206 (type examined). |