Black-Throated Wheatear, Desert Wheatear, Whinchat. ss 



Family— TURDID.^. Subfamily— TURBINE. 



The Black Throated Wheatear. 



Saxicola stapazina, ViEILL. 



A 



SINGLE male specimen was sliot near Bury, in Lancashire, about the 8th 

 Ma}', 1875 ; it belonged to the Eastern race of the species. 



Family— TURD ID ^. Subfamily— TURDIN^. 



The Desert Wheatear. 



Saxicola dcserti, Rupp. 



A 



MALE was shot near Alloa in Clackmannanshire, on the 26th November, 

 1880, a female on the Holdemess coast, Yorkshire, on the 17th October, 

 1885, and a second near Arbroath on the 28th December, 1887. 



Family— TURDID^. Subfamily— TURDIN^F. 



The Whinchat. 



Fratiiicola Rubctra, LiNN. 



BREEDS in suitable localities throughout Northern and Central Europe, its 

 eastern boundary in European Russia being probably the Ural Mountains ; 

 it winters in Southern Europe and Northern Africa, extending its range 

 westward to Fantee and eastward to Abyssinia. It also occurs in Arabia, Asia 

 Minor and Northern India : bv:t in the Indian examples the relative length of 

 the primaries is said to differ, and the birds themselves are larger than ours. 

 In Great Britain the "Whinchat is pretty generally distributed ; being abundant 



