TURDID^l. 



A specimen was erroneously recorded as shot in West- 

 meath, November 17/T6iT^Zoologist/ 1870, p. 2019; 1880, 

 p. 67). It is a South-European and Asiatic species which 

 has once occurred in Heligoland.] 



Genus SAXICOLA, Bechstein, On. Taschenb. p. 216 

 (1802). 



Saxwola = that dwells among rocks ; from saxum -\- colere. 



Saxicola cenanthe. WHEATEAR. 



Motacilla Oenanthe, Linn. S. N. i. p. 332 

 (1766). 



Saxicola cenanthe, Naum. iii. p. 863; Macg. ii. p. 289; 



Hewitson, p. 110; Gray, p. 55; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 276; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 286 ; Newton, i. p. 347 ; Gould, ii. pi. 45 ; 



Harting, p. 13 ; Dresser, ii. p. 187. 

 Wheatear, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 253. 



(Enanthe = olvavQr], the bird that appears when the vine shoots (Aristotle, 

 Hist. An. ix. 49 B, 8) ; from olvrj = the vine, and dv9os = a blossom or sprout. 



A regular summer migrant, breeding on downs and in 

 moorland districts throughout the British Islands, also in 

 Central and Northern Europe, westwards as far as Green- 

 land, and eastwards across Siberia into Alaska. Winters in 

 Africa, Persia, and India. 



Saxicola stapazina. BLACK-THKOATED WHEATEAE. 



CEnanthe stapazina, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. xxi. 

 p. 425 (1818). 



Saxicola stapazina, Naum. iii. p. 879. 



Saxicola rufa (Russet Chat), Dresser, ii. p. 207. 



Stapazina, the Linnean name, latinized from the Bolognese Strapazino, used 

 by Aldrovand, Willughby, &c., as if connected with It. strapazzare = to insult 

 or work coarsely 



'"One was shot near Bury, Lancashire, May 1875 (P. Z. S. 



