232 THE BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



buffer below and has no black on the throat, and in the winter 

 plumage the black on the throat of the male is obscured by 

 white tips. Length, 5*6 ins. Wing, 3'6 ins. Tarsus, i in. 



Pied Wheatear. (Enanthe kucomela (Pallas). 



A single example, a female, of this central Asiatic Wheatear, 

 which occurs from the extreme south-east of Europe to China, 

 and has been found wintering in India and north-eastern Africa, 

 was obtained on the Isle of May in October, 1909. 



In summer the male is a white and black bird ; his white 

 crown tinged with grey contrasting with his black face and 

 throat. The female is browner, and the head is washed with 

 sandy buff. Miss Baxter and Miss Rintoul, who obtained the 

 bird, noticed that it was darker than a Common Wheatear, 

 looked smaller and showed less white on the rump. Length, 

 57 ins. Wing, yd ins. Tarsus, "9 in. 



Black Wheatear. (Enanihe humra (Gmelin). 



Both the Spanish typical form and the North African Black 

 Wheatear, 0. I. syenitica (Heugl.), which is separated on 

 account of the brownish shade of black and the wider and more 

 continuous tail fringe, have been recorded for Britain, the first 

 obtained in Sussex and Fair Island, in autumn, the other in 

 Sussex in spring. The male is a black bird, with the typical 

 wheatear upper tail-coverts and tail, white with partly black 

 central feathers and a black terminal fringe ; the female is 

 browner. Length, 6*5 ins. Wing, 3*6 ins. Tarsus, i in. 



Family ACCENTORID^. Accentors. 

 Hedge-Sparrow. Accentor modularis (Linn.). 



The Hedge-Accentor, far better known as the Hedge-Sparrow 

 (Plate 94), is a resident and partial migrant in most parts of 



