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Distribution. — Great Britain. — Female Holderness coast (Yorks.) 

 Oct. 17, 1885 (Saunders, p. 25), is of this form. Other Desert- 

 Wheatears which we have not examined, are : male, near Alloa 

 (Clackmannan), Nov. 26, 1880 ; male, near Arbroath (Forfar), 

 Dec. 28, 1887 (Saunders, p. 25) ; male "near the sea" (Norfolk), 

 Oct. 31, 1907 (J. H. Gurney, Zool., 1908, p. 132). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Sahara. Once obtained in Italy. 



169. CEnanthe deserti albifrons (Brandt)*— THE EASTERN 



DESERT- WHEATEAR. 



Saxicola albifrons Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, 11, p. 139 (1844 



— W. Siberia). 



Saxicola deserti atrogidaris Blyth, Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, i, p. 684. 



Distribution. — Scotland. — Male Pentland Skerries Light (Orkneys), 

 June 2, 1906 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1906, p. 138) 

 is of this form. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — From Khirgiz Steppes to Saissansk, 

 Dsungaria, Xan-Shan, Ala-Shan, Ordas, and south Kuku-Xor. 

 (Specimens obtained on Heligoland probably belong to this form.) 

 On migration through south-west Asia to south Arabia, Sokotra, 

 and north-east Africa. 



CENANTHE HISPANICAt 



170. CEnanthe hispanica hispanica (L.)— THE WESTERN 

 BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR. 



MoTAciLLA HISPANICA Linnaeus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 186 (1758 — 

 " Hispania." Typical locality : Gibraltar). 



Saxicola stapazina (Vieillot), Yarrell, i, p. viii ; Saxinders, p. 23 ; 

 «S'. stapazina (Linnaeus) nee Vieillot, id., Brit. B., i, p. 6 ; S. occidentalis, 

 id., I.e., p. 7 ; S. h. hispanica, Hartert, op.c, iv, p. 131. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Six obtained and one seen, viz. : 

 male (black -throated) near Bury (Lanes.) May 8, 1875 ; male 

 (black-throated) seen Spurn (Yorks.) Sept. 18, 1892 (Saunders, p. 23); 

 male near Polegate (Sussex) May 28, 1902; male near Hooe (Sussex) 

 May 22, 1905 ; male (black-throated) near Lydd (Kent) May 22, 

 1906 (Saunders, Brit. B., i, pp. 6, 7) ; male Winchelsea (Sussex) 

 May 2, 1907 (J. B. Xichols, t.c, i, p. 185) ; male (black-throated) 

 Fair Isle Sept. 25, 1907 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1908, 

 p. 81 ; cf. Brit. B., 1, p. 382). 



* The name albifrons has hitherto been overlooked, and was only dis- 

 covered by Hartert after the appearance of the first volume of his book on 

 Palaearctic birds. 



t Clearly described in 1758 as Mot. hispanica. As the black-throated 

 and white-throated birds (stapazina and aurita of former times) are only 

 dimorphisms of the same species, hispanica takes the place of both. — E.H. 



