THE WHEATEAR, ETC., IN ORKNEY 293 



PIED WHEATEAR AND OTHER RARE 

 BIRDS IN ORKNEY. 



By John Bain. 



On 1st November 1916 I obtained on the island of Swona 

 a Wheatear which was quite new to me. I sent it to Dr 

 Eagle Clarke, who informs me that it is a young female of 

 the Pied Chat {(Enanthe leucomeld). This is the second 

 British specimen, the only previous record being one from 

 the Isle of May in 1909. 



This autumn has not been a very good one for birds, 

 but I have two other uncommon visitors to record. One 

 was a Red-breasted Flycatcher on 29th September. Strange 

 to say, this bird was in the same small geo and sitting on 

 the same ledge of rock as that I recorded last year. The 

 other was a Black Redstart, a young male, which I caught 

 in the storehouse, where it was exceedingly busy catching 

 flies on the window. 



ON THE FIRST WINTER PLUMAGE OF THE 

 FEMALE PIED WHEATEAR, (ENANTHE 

 LEUCOMELA. 



By Wm. Eagle Clarke, LL.D., F.R.S.E. 



The capture of the second British example of the Pied 

 Wheatear (ffi. leuconiela, Pallas = (E. plesc/uinka, Lepache), 

 recorded above, is not only interesting as an example of the 

 wanderings from its accustomed tracks of a south-eastern 

 European and southern Siberian summer bird, but is useful 

 since it affords an opportunity of describing the species in 

 a stage of plumage which has been hitherto treated of in a 

 very sketchy and wholly inadequate manner. 



This Orcadian specimen is a young female in its first 



