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Show 1874.] THE GENUS SAXICOLA. 225 are washed with rufous isabelline ; and the black throat is absent, the entire underparts being sandy isabelline, rather greyer on the neck; wings dull dark brown, tail as in the male. Saxicola isabellina, Temm. nee Riipp., S. pallida, Riipp., and S. homochroa, Tristr. I. c, are all females of this species ; the remaining names apply to the male. S. pallida, Riipp. Atlas, pi. 34. fig. a, is the female of S. monacha, q. v. Hab. South-eastern Russia; Southern and Central Asia as far east as Central India and Yarkand; Northern and North-eastern Africa. 10. SAXICOLA LEUCOMELA. Motacilla leucomela, Pall. Nov. Com. Petr. xiv. p. 584. no. 6, pi. 22. fig. 3 (1770). Muscicapa leucomela, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 469.no. 7 (1790). Sylvia leucomela (Pall.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 138 (1815). (Enanthepleschanka, Vieill. N. Diet. xxi. p. 423 (1818). Saxicola leucomela (Pall.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 243 (1820). Saxicola lugens, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 33 (1823) (type examined). Fitiflora leucomela (Pall.), Bp. Comp. List B. of Eur. & N. A m. p. 16 (1838). Saxicola atricollis, v. Mull. Naumannia, 1851, iv. p. 28, "Abyssinia." ? Saxicola capistrata, Gould, B. of Asia, part xvii. (ptil. hiem.), 1865. Adult male (Egypt). Crown and nape white, the former strongly tinged with brownish grey ; back, scapulars, throat to the upper part of the breast, sides of the head and neck, including a narrow line above the eye, upper part of the flanks, under wing-coverts, and axillaries glossy jet-black; wings duller black than the back, secondaries narrowly tipped with whitish ; rump and upper tail-coverts pure white ; tail as in S. morio, but narrowly tipped with white ; breast and abdomen pure white; crissum and under tail-coverts pale rufous ; bill and legs black; iris dark brown. Culmen 0 7 , wing 3-8, tail 275, tarsus T05. Female. Similar to the male. Hab. Southern and South-eastern Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia as far east as Persia. 11. SAXICOLA MORIO. Saxicola morio, Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol. aa, "Egypt and Arabia" (1829). Saxicola leucomela, Gould, B. of Asia, part xviii. (1865). Saxicola leucomela, Jerd. B. of I. ii. p. 131 (1863, nee Pall.). Saxicola capistrata, Hume, Ibis, 1868, p. 233 (nee Gould). Adult male (Lahore). Crown and nape greyish white, with the faintest wash of brown ; mantle, throat, and upper part of the breast, |