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CENANTHE ISABELLINA 



173. GEnanthe isabellina ((^retzschm.)— THE ISABELLINE 



WHEATEAR. 



Saxicola isabellina Cretzschmar, Atlas zu Riippells Reise, Vogel, 



p. 52, pi. 34, b (182<)— Xubia). 



Saxicola isabellina Riippell, Saunders, p. 21. 



Distribution. — England. — Two. Female, Allonby (Cumberland) 

 Nov. 11, 1887 (H. A. Macpheison, Ibis, 1888, p. 149). Male, Rye 

 Harbour (Sussex) April 17, 1911 (N. F. Ticehurst, Brit. B., v, p. 74). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — From steppes of south-east Russia, Asia 

 Minor and Syria to Turkestan, Tibet, Mongolia, east Siberia, and 

 nortll-^^■est China ; wintering in north-east and east Africa, south 

 Arabia, and west India. Casual in south-east Europe, a few times 

 observed in Tunisia and Algeria. 



CENANTHE LEUCURA 



174. CEnanthe leucura leucura (Gm.) — THE BLACK 



WHEATEAR. 



TARDUS LEUCURUS Gmeliri, Syst. Nat., i, ii, p. 820 (1789— Gibraltar). 

 Saxicola leucura (Gm.), N. F. Ticehurst, Brit. B., iii, p. 289. 



Distribution. — England. — Male and female near Rye Harbour 

 (Sussex) seen Aug. 31, 1909, and shot Sept. 2 and 16 respectively 

 {ut supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Portugal and Spain, Riviera, and, ap- 

 parently, in Sicily, but not in Greece. Replaced by a closely- 

 allied form in north-west Africa. 



SAXICOLA RUBETRA* 



175. Saxicola rubetra rubetra (L.)— THE WHINCHAT. 



MoTACiLLA Rubetra Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 186 (1758 — Europe. 



Retricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Pratincola rubetra (Linnaeus), Yarreil, i, p. 344 ; Saunders, p. 27. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Summer -resident (April to Oct.), 

 somewhat local, but widely distributed and in many parts very 

 numerous. Rare Cornwall, very local Orkneys, a rarely observed 

 migrant only in Shetlands ; spring and autumn migrant Fair Isle ; 

 breeds very sparingly O. Hebrides. Ireland. — Breeds locally through- 

 out Ulster and in north-east Mayo, Leitrim, SHgo, Roscommon and 

 Longford, scarcer in Louth, Dublin, Wicklow, and Clare; elsewhere 

 a rare migrant. Winters on rare occasions. 



* The usual name Pratincola dates from Koch, 1816, but cannot be used 

 because Schrank introduced it for the Pratincoles in 1798. (See note imder 

 (Enanthe oenanthe.) — E.H. 



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