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at the base of the inner webs of all the quills, except the exterior, corresponding and opposite 
to orange brown patches on the outer webs. The sides are tinged with plumbeous ; many of 
the feathers margined with tis color. 
List of specimens. 
Catal.| Sex. Locality. When collect-| Whence obtained. [xed Collected by— Length.) Stretch Remarks. 
No. ed. No. jof wings. 
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5998 |.esscece | Port Townsend, W. T.... 
«| Jan. 30, 1854 
. Legs yellow . 
.| Jan. 12, 1854 
Iris brown.... 
1844| | Columbia river........... 
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4488 |........| Cascade mountains, W. 'T’.|. «»| Lieut. Williamson,.,......| Dr. Newberry...ees|eeee cece 
3916 3 \iGatifornia, s.cccaseewecses sees Dr. Heermann.....|...00+ [lncieeiseevicsiciess ceseies| secs eos 
124 |... ween | Calaveias, Cala... Lieut. Williamson... ...... Dr. Heermann .....|.sceeee- 
seer cece cecees J -NADLUS CERVICECY scl oiaiata aie | alele cleishuie(sialeiicie'e ele sleti|ien e'elelels 
istereietall dietstclelelele | Fort Tejon..do... . veces. 
SAXICOLA, Bechstein. 
Saxicola, Becustein, Gemeinniitzige Naturg. 1802. (Agassiz.) (Type S. oenanthe.) 
Cu.—Commissure slightly curved to the well notched tip. Culmen concave for the basal half, then gently decurving. 
Gonys straight. Bill slender, attenuated ; more than half the length of head. ‘Tail short, broad, even. Legs considerably 
longer than the head ; when outstretched reaching nearly to the tip of tail. Third quill longest ; second but little shorter. Claws 
long, slightly curved ; hind toe rather elongated. 
The genus Saxicola, represented in North America by stragglers of a single Kuropean species, 
is usually placed far apart from Yurdus in ornithological systems, and generally in close 
association with Sialia in a sub-family Sawicolinae. As, however, of the numerous other allied 
genera of Samicolinae in the old world, these two are the only ones found in the new, it will 
create no confusion to bring them with Zurdus into one sub-family, Zurdinae, in view of their 
really close relationships. 
SAXICOLA OENANTHE, Bechst. 
Stone Chat. 
Motacilla oenanthe, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766. 
“ Sawicola oenanthe, Becust. Gemein. Naturg. 1802,’ and of European writers, as of Bonar. Consp. 1850, 303. 
? Saxicola oenanthoides, Vicors, Zool. Blossom, 1839, 19, (N. W. coast.) —Cassin, Illust. I, vir, 1854, 208 ; pl. xxxiv. 
(Nova Scotia.) 
Sp. Cu.—(Description from European specimen.) Forehead, line over the eye, and under parts generally, white ; the latter 
tinged with pale yellowish brown, especially on the breast and throat. A stripe from the bill through, below, and behind the 
eye, with the wings, upper tail coverts, bill and feet black. Tail white, with an abrupt band of black (about .60 of an inch 
long) at the end, this color extending further up on the middle feather. Rest of upper parts ash gray ; quills and greater coverts 
slightly edged with whitish. Length, 6.00 ; wing, 3.45; tail, 2.50; tarsus, 1.05. 
Hab.—Greenland. Accidental in northern part of North America. Common in Europe. 
The preceding description is taken from a South European skin of this species, which, in all 
