SCOTOCERCA.
Small pale brown with short rounded tail of io feathers ; inhabit bare stony hills, restless, gliding from bush to bush, stone to stone, or running up boughs like Creeper, sit with tail vertical, expanding and jerking it, repeatedly rising from perch, poising and dropping again. Nest, globular, in a bush; eggs white with small red spots.
Scotocerca inquieta inquieta (Cretzschmar).
? Above brownish buff striated with black, faintly on back, more distinctly on head, space before and behind eye dark brown, tail dark brown faintly barred, outer pair feathers shorter with broader white tips ; beneath white, reddish buff on flanks, and with dark shaft streaks on throat. Iris yellow. Bill dark
brown. Legs and feet yellowish brown. Wing e ? 46-47. Tail 5o. Tarsus 19. Culinen 11.5 (H.).
Resident.—N. Egypt, Arabia, S. Palestine.
S. inquieta saharre (Locke). Slightly paler (especially in summer when bleached) ; a desert form. Feet light orange. Iris pale greenish yellow. Young ; iris grey blue, tarsi reddish. Resident —Algeria, Tunisia (south of Atlas) to Cyrenaica.