BIRDS OF NEW YORK 



535 



i<>05, collected by A. H. Helme, reported by Braislin, " Birds of Long 

 Island," page 100. 



This thrush evidently follows occasionally the troops of robins which 

 come south from Alaska and reaches the Atlantic coast in their company. 

 When noticed by bird observers he will appear like a curiously variegated 

 Robin, a bird about the same size and shape; but the regular wing bars 

 and the black collar, with the black markings and black and reddish yellow 

 markings on the side of the head, will distinguish him at once among his 

 more common brethren. 



Saxicola oenanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin) 

 Greenland Wheatear 



Motacilla leucorhoa Gmelin. Syst. Nat. 1 789. i : 966 



Saxicola oenanthe leucorhoa A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 366. 



No. ?65a 



saxicola, Lat., rock dweller; oendnthe, Gr., name of some small bird; leucorhoa, 

 Gr., \vhite-rumped 



Description. In summer, ashy gray; line over the eye, under parts, 

 and basal portion of tail, white; breast 

 sometimes tinted with buff; wings and 

 terminal portion of tail black; broad 

 line from the nostril through the eye 

 and along side of the head black; bill 

 and feet black. Female: Slightly more 

 brownish. In winter: Both adults 

 and young olive brown above; under 

 parts cinnamon brown; wings and tail 

 much as in summer. 



Length 6.75 inches; extent 12.5; 

 wing 4; tail 2.38; tarsus 1.2. Female: 

 slightly smaller. 



Distribution. This subspecies of 

 the Wheatear breeds in northeastern 

 Arctic America from Elsmere Land 

 and Boothia peninsula to eastern Greenland, Iceland and northern Ungava. 

 It winters in west Africa, migrating through the Shetland isles and Great 



. S a,icoia oenanthe leu 



orhoa <Gmeiin>. 



