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Family TURDID&. SiibfamilyTURDIN^.. 



THE BLACK THROATED WHEATEAR. 



A 



Saxicola stapazina, VlElLL. 



SINGLE male specimen was shot near Bury, in Lancashire, about the 8th 

 May, 1875 ; it belonged to the Eastern race of the species. 



Family TURDID/E. Subfamily TURDIN&. 



THE DESERT WHEATEAR. 



Saxicola desert i, RUPP. 



A MALE was shot near Alloa in Clackmannanshire, on the 26th November, 

 1880, a female on the Holderness coast, Yorkshire, on the I7th October, 

 1885, and a second near Arbroath on the 28th December, 1887. 



Family TURD ID /E. Subfamily TURDINAZ. 



THE WHINCHAT. 



Pratincola rubetra, LlNN. 



BREEDS in suitable localities throughout Northern and Central Europe, its 

 eastern boundary in European Russia being probably the Ural Mountains ; 

 it winters in Southern Europe and Northern Africa, extending its range west- 

 ward to Fantee and eastward to Abyssinia. It also occurs in Arabia, Asia 

 Minor and Northern India : but in the Indian examples the relative length of 

 the primaries is said to differ, and the birds themselves are larger than ours. 

 In Great Britain the Whinchat is pretty generally distributed; being abundant 

 in certain localities, but absent from many districts of Scotland, and somewhat 

 local in Ireland. 



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