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Show 228 MESSRS. BLANFORD AND DRESSER ON [Apr. 21, lida. Dr. Finsch, who looked on S. pallida as a distinct species, had not the opportunity of examining so large a series of S. monacha as we have been able to compare. 15. SAXICOLA LEUCOPYGA. Saxicola leucura (Gm.), Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 32 (1823), nee Gm. Fitiflora leucopyga, C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. p. 225 (1855). Vitiflora leucuros, C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1855), partim. Lutucoa leucocapilla, Paul v. Wtirtt., fide C. L. Brehm, ut supra (1855). Dromolaa leucocephala, A. E. Brehm, Journ. f. Orn. 1858, p. 62. Dromolaa leacopygaia, A. E. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 66. Dromolaa leucopygia, Br., Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 297. Dromolaa monacha, Loche, Exp. Scient. de l'Alg. i. p. 199 (1867), nee Riipp. Dromolaa nigra, Loche, torn. cit. p. 200 (1867). ? Saxicola leucuroides, Heuglin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 358. no. 308 (1869). 1 Saxicola syenitica, Heuglin, torn. cit. p. 358. no. 309 (1869). Saxicola cursoria, Savig. Desc. de l'Eg. xxiii. p. 347, pi. 5. fig. 1 (nee Vieill.),/^ Heugl. ut supra (1869). Adult male (Nubia). Crown, nape, rump, upper and under tail-coverts, anal region, and all the rectrices except the two central ones, white ; rest of the body above and below, including the feathers above the eye, glossy jet-black ; terminal half of the central tail-feathers and two thirds of their shafts black, remainder white. There are occasionally a few black spots on the tips of the outer rectrices, Culmen 0'82, wing 4-1, tail 2"9, tarsus 1*1. Female. Similar to the male. Young birds have the crown of the head black. Hab. Northern Africa and Palestine. Obs. The "Traquet coureur ouTraquet acallotte et queue blanches" of Levaillant (pi. 190), (Enanthe cursoria, Vieill. (N. Diet. xxi. p. 431), might possibly be this species ; but Levaillant, in his plate, figures it with the rump and upper tail-coverts jet-black, which debars us from adopting the name*. 16. SAXICOLA LEUCURA. White-tailed Thrush, Lath. Syn. iii. p. 49, " Gibraltar" (1783). Turdus leucurus, G m . Syst. Nat. i. p. 820 (1788, ex Lath.). (Enanthe leucura, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 422, " Spain, Southern France" (1818). Saxicola cachinnans, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 236, " Southern Europe" (1820). Dromolaa leucura, Cab. Mus. Heinearium, i. p. 9 (1850). Fitiflora leucuros, C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. p. 225, " N.E. Africa and S. Europe" (1855), partim. * Compare Sundevall, " O m Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr.," Kong. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. ii. no. 3, p. 45. |