SAXICOLA. 565 



upper parts, except uropygium, become seal-brown ; wing-feathers similar 

 from the wearing away of the light margins; under parts darker than 

 in the fresh plumage. A female measures : Wing, 64 ; tail, 50 ; culmen 

 from base, 13 ; bill from nostril, 7.5 ; tarsus, 20. 



Young. A young male (May) resembles the female in worn plumage, 

 but the under parts are richer and more mottled; chin and throat buff 

 with blackish edges to feathers; breast and abdomen rusty ocherous, the 

 feathers of breast fringed with dull black; head, neck, and back smoky 

 black, most of the feathers marked with small buff spots; secondaries, 

 alula, and secondary-coverts broadly edged with rusty ocherous; edging 

 of alula-feathers lighter ; bases of inner greater coverts pure white. 



Genus SAXICOLA Bechstein, 1802. 



Bill slender; rictal bristles weak, the longest less than bill from 

 nostril; wing long, flat, and pointed; first primary short and slender, 

 less than one-third of second; tail rounded, extending very little beyond 

 the folded wings. 



547. SAXICOLA CENANTHE (Linmeus). 

 WHEATEAR, 



Motacilla oenanthe LINN^US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 186. 



Saxlcola oenanthe SEEBOHM, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 391; SHARPE, 

 Hand-List (1903), 4, 175; GATES and REID, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1905), 

 4, 165; MCGREGOR, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 27; MCGREGOR and 

 WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 86. 



Calayan (McGregor). Europe and northern Asia to Alaska; in winter to the 

 Indian Peninsula and eastern Africa. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. General color of the upper parts 

 pale slate-gray ; forehead and eye-stripe, which extends to the nape, white ; 

 lores and upper part of the ear-coverts black; wings and wing-coverts 

 nearly black, a few traces of the autumnal buff margins to the" feathers 

 generally left; rump and upper tail-coverts white; tail white except the 

 terminal three-fifths of the two center feathers, and the terminal fourths 

 of the others, which are nearly black ; under parts very pale buff, slightly 

 darker on the throat and breast; axillars and under wing-coverts white 

 with dark centers ; inner margin of quills brown. Bill, legs, feet, and 

 claws black. Wing with the third and fourth primaries nearly equal and 

 longest ; second primary sometimes as long as the fourth ; bastard primary, 

 19 to 14 mm. Wing, 106.6 to 89; (females, 94 to 87.6) ; tail 62 to 51; 

 culmen, 18 to 16 ; tarsus, 30 to 27. 



"Adult female in breeding plumage. General color of the upper parts 

 dull brown; forehead and eye-stripe buffish white, much narrower than 

 in the male; lores and upper part of the ear-coverts brown; wings and 

 wing-coverts not so dark as in the male; rump and upper tail-coverts 



