SAXICOLA. - PRATINCOLA. 



1878, pp. 881, 977). It inhabits Southern and South- 

 western Europe and Northern Africa, and it has occurred in 

 Heligoland. 



Saxicola deserti. DESERT WHEATEAE. 



Saxicola deserti, Temminck, ex Ruppell, PI. Col. 359. 

 fig. 2 (1825). 



Saxicola deserti (Desert-Chat), Dresser, ii. p. 215. 



Deserti, gen. of desertum = a desert, from its inhabiting desert places. 



One was shot in Clackmannanshire, November 26, 1880 



(Dalgleish, Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin. vi. p. 64). Occurs 



** in Northern and North-eastern Africa, and eastward through 



Persia to the north-west of India ; a rare straggler north of 



the Mediterranean, although it has been taken twice in 



Genus PRATINCOLA, Koch, Syst. d. baier. Zool. i. 

 p. 190 (1816). 



Pratincola, from prdtum = a meadow, and incola = an inhabitant. 



Pratincola rubetra. WHINCHAT. 



Motacilla Rubetra, Linn. S.N. i. p. 332 (1776). 



Saxicola rubetra, Naum. iii. p. 903 ; Hewitson, p. 108; Yarr. 



ed. 2, i. p. 272; id. ed. 3, i. p. 282; Newton, i. p. 344; 



Gould, ii. pi. 46 ; Harting, p. 13. 

 Fruticicola rubetra, Macg. ii. p. 273. 

 Pratincola rubetra, Gray, p. 56; Dresser, ii. p. 255. 

 Whinchat, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 249. 



Rubetra = that frequents rubeta, bramble- thickets ; or, perhaps, simply from 

 ruber = ruddy. 



A regular summer migrant, breeding in most counties of 

 Great Britain and throughout temperate Europe. Winters 

 in Africa. 



