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Show 1874.] THE G E N U S SAXICOLA. 237 Adult male. Upper parts ashy grey ; rump and upper tail-coverts white; wings and tail dusky black ; secondaries and wing-coverts with pale margins; the four outer rectrices with white margins extending to the tip in the outermost, and gradually diminishing till in the fourth the white does not extend over half the basal portion ; underparts ashy white, fading to white on the abdomen; the first long primary deeply emarginate on the inner web. Culmen 0'8, wing 3*65, tail 2-5, tarsus 1*2. Fig. 2. Tail of Saxicola schlegeli. Female. Precisely similar to the male, except that the first long primary is attenuated but not emarginate. Hab. Damaraland ; South Africa. S. schlegeli, var. minor. This bird, of which we have two specimens, is smaller in size and paler and more sandy in colour than the specimens above described; but one example of the larger form is equally pale, and all are from the same locality. The measurements of the small variety are as follows:-culmen 0*68-07, wing 3*4, tail 2*3, tarsus 1 • 1. 34. SAXICOLA GALTONI. Erythropygia galtoni, Strickland, Jardine's Contributions, 1852, p. 147. Saxicola sperata, Layard, Birds of S. Africa, p. 107 (nee Lath. ?). Saxicola familiaris, Gurney, in Andersson's Birds of Damara Land, p. 103 (nee Stephens). Upper parts to the rump hair-brown; quills the same ; ear-coverts rather brighter; rump, upper tail-coverts, and basal portion of all the tail-feathers, except the central pair, ferruginous ; central tail-feathers and tips of the others brown ; remainder of the outer tail-feathers ferruginous, the brown colour running some distance upon the external web of the outer pair ; lower parts rather paler brown |