H. SAUNDERS : ADDITIONS SINCE 1899. 7 



Some kind of Black-eared Wlieatear has been obtained 

 on two occasions at Heligoland, and occurrences are on 

 record in Salzburg- and even in Normandy ; while from the 

 Loire southward the species becomes increasingly common. 

 Its home is in Southern Europe and North Africa, as far 

 eastward as Tunisia for the western form. 



[The Black-theoated Wheatear (Manual, 2nd Ed., 

 p. 23) should now, according to Count Salvadori {cf. " Ibis," 

 1904, p. 78) be distinguished as Saxicola occidentalis, for the 

 western representative. Possessors of the Manual are 

 therefore requested to alter the name on p. 23 from 

 S. stapazina to S. occidentalis. Incidentally it may be 

 mentioned that on 20th June, 1906, Mr. C. B. Ticehurst 

 exhibited at the British Ornithologists' Club an adult male 

 obtained near Lydd, Kent, on May 23rd, 1906, being the 

 second British example (Bull., XVI., p. 124).] 



III. — The Siberian Stonechat. 

 Pratiyicola maura (Pallas). 



On behalf of Mr. E. C. Arnold, of Eastbourne College, 

 Eastbourne, a male, shot near Cley, Norfolk, on September 

 2nd, 1904, was exhibited at the B.O.C. (Bull., XVI., p. 10.). 



This representative of our Stonechat in Northern 

 Europe and from the Petchora valley eastward in Asia as 

 far as- Japan is characterized by an unspotted white rump 

 and an increased blackness of plumage in the male. To a 

 bird found in Eastern Turkestan and to the north of the 

 Himalayas the name P. prjevalski has been applied by 

 Pleske. 



IV. — The White-spotted Bluethroat. 



Cyanecula woJfi, C. L. Breliin (1822). 



For years there can have been little doubt that this 

 representative of C. suecica, with its more southern and 

 western breeding area, must occur at intervals in Great 

 Britain : but inasmuch as the females and immature of 



