SAXICOLA CENANTHE : WHEAT-EAR. 



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FAMILY SAXICOLID^ : STONE CHATS, ETC. 



WHEAT-EAR; STONE CHAT. 

 SAXICOLA CENANTHE () Bechst. 



Chars. Adult: Ashy-gray; forehead, supraciliary line, and under 

 parts white, latter often brownish-tinted. Upper tail-coverts 

 white ; wings and tail black, latter with most of the feathers white 

 for half their length. Line from nostril to eye, and broad band 

 on side of head, black. Bill and feet black. Young, everywhere 

 cinnamon brown, paler below. Wing, 3.50 ; tail, 2.50 ; tarsus, 

 i. oo ; middle toe and claw, 0.75. (Coues.) 



A rare straggler to New England, of entirely for- 

 tuitous occurrence. 



[In 1868, I included this species in my New Eng- 

 land List (Pr. Essex Inst., v, 1868, p. 268), on the 

 strength of its repeated 

 occurrence along the 

 Atlantic coast of North 

 America, from Green- 

 land and Labrador to 

 Long Island and the 

 Bermudas. The' pro- 

 priety of enumerating it 

 among the New Eng- 

 land stragglers has been 

 lately established by Mr. 

 Boardman, who records a specimen secured at Calais, 

 Maine (Bull. Nuttall Club, v, 1880, p. 115). I found the 

 bird in Labrador in 1860, and the alleged Nova Scotian 



FIG. 13. DETAILS OF STRUCTURE OF 

 Saxicola oenanthe. 



