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Show 1874.] THE GENUS SAXICOLA. 231 Saxicola leucorhoides, Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 291 (nee Guer.), desc. nulla. Saxicola heuglini, Finsch & Hartl. Vog. N.O.-Afr. p. 259 (1870) (type examined). Type. Upper parts dull dark blackish brown, some of the feathers on the back margined with dull rufous; quills narrowly tipped, secondaries and wing-coverts broadly margined and tipped with dull rufous ; central rectrices black, except at the base, where they are white; rest of tail-feathers white on the basal and black on the terminal half, narrowly tipped with white ; underparts white on the breast, lower part of the throat, flanks, and under tail-coverts washed with bright rufous ; upper tail-coverts white ; over the eye an indistinct whitish line. Wing 3-35, tail 2*45, tarsus 1*05, culm. 0*52. Hab. Highlands of Abyssinia. 22. SAXICOLA LUGUBRIS. Saxicola lugubris, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 77, pi. 28. fig. 1 (1840) (type examined). Saxicola brehmii, Salvad. Att. Ac. Tor. 1870, p. 508 (type examined). 1 Saxicola leucuroides, Guer. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 162. Adult male. Crown and nape brownish grey, feathers with black shafts; rump and upper tail-coverts and basal portion of all the rectrices rufous, amounting to about half the length of the central and two thirds of the remaining rectrices ; centre of abdomen whitish; under tail-coverts buff; rest of plumage jet-black. Culm. 0 7, wing 3-3, tail 2*4, tarsus 0'9. Adult female. Is said not to differ from the male in plumage, but is slightly smaller (fide Von Heuglin). The head is very much darker in some specimens than in others, being sometimes scarcely paler than the back; and in one skin thus coloured there is no white on the abdomen. Such a specimen, we think, must have been the type of S. leucuroides, which has hitherto always been identified with S. opistholeuca, Strickland (q. v.). But Guerin's description of S. leucuroides runs thus :-" Tota atra, cauda basi uropygioque imo rufescenti-albidis." Now the tail is, so far as we know, never rufescent at the base in S. opistholeuca; and that species, moreover, has not been found by any observer in Abyssinia, whence the bird described by Guerin was brought by Ferret and Galinier. No type of Guerin's species exists in the Paris Museum. The base of the tail-feathers is occasionally white ; and this is the form described by Salvadori under the name of <S. brehmii. Hab. Abyssinian highlands. 23. SAXICOLA ATMORI. Saxicola atmorii, Tristram, Ibis, 1869, p. 206. Type. Head and body above and below smoky black, upper tail-coverts white; central rectrices black, outer rectrices white, tipped |