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DISTRIBUTION. Great Britain. Female Holderness coast (Yorks.) 

 Oct. 17, 1885 (Saunders, p. 25), is of this form. Other Desert- 

 Wheatears which we have not examined, are : male, near Alloa 

 (Clackmannan), Nov. 26, 1880 ; male, near Arbroath (Forfar), 

 Dec. 28, 1887 (Saunders, p. 25) ; male " near the sea " (Norfolk), 

 Oct. 31, 1907 (J. H. Gurney, Zoo!., 1908, p. 132). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Sahara. Once obtained in Italy. 



169. CEnanthe deserti albifrons (Brandt)* THE EASTERN 

 DESERT- WHEATEAR. 



SAXICOLA ALBIFRONS Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, n, p. 139 (1844 



W. Siberia). 



Saxicola deserti atrogularis Blyth, Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, i, p. 684. 



DISTRIBUTION. Scotland. Male Pentland Skerries Light (Orkneys), 

 June 2, 1906 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1906, p. 138) 

 is of this form. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. From Khirgiz Steppes to Saissansk, 

 Dsungaria, Nan-Shan, Ala-Shan, Ordas, and south Kuku-Nor. 

 (Specimens obtained on Heligoland probably belong to this form.) 

 On migration through south-west Asia to south Arabia, Sokotra, 

 and north-east Africa. 



CENANTHE HISPANICAf 



170. CEnanthe hispanica hispanica (L.) THE WESTERN 

 BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR. 



MOTACILLA HISPANICA Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 186 (1758 

 " Hispania." Typical locality : Gibraltar). 



Saxicola stapazina (Vieillot), Yarrell, i, p. viii ; Saunders, p. 23 ; 

 S. stapazina (Linnaeus) nee Vieillot, id., Brit. B., i, p. 6 ; S. occidentalis, 

 id., I.e., p. 7 ; S. h. hispanica, Hartert, op.c., TV, p. 131. 



DISTRIBUTION. Great Britain. Six obtained and one seen, viz. : 

 male (black-throated) near Bury (Lanes.) May 8, 1875 ; male 

 (black-throated) seen Spurn (Yorks.) Sept. 18, 1892 (Saunders, p. 23) ; 

 male near Polegate (Sussex) May 28, 1902; male near Hooe (Sussex) 

 May 22, 1905 ; male (black-throated) near Lydd (Kent) May 22, 

 1906 (Saunders, Brit. B., i, pp. 6, 7) ; male Winchelsea (Sussex) 

 May 2, 1907 (J. B. Nichols, i.e., i, p. 185) ; male (black-throated) 

 Fair Isle Sept. 25, 1907 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1908, 

 p. 81 ; cf. Brit. B., i, p. 382). 



* The name albifrons has hitherto been overlooked, and was only dis- 

 covered by Hartert after the appearance of the first volume of his book on 

 Palae arctic birds. 



f Clearly described in 1758 as Mot. hispanica. As the black-throated 

 and white- throated birds (stapazina and aurita of former times) are only 

 dimorphisms of the same species, hispanica takes the place of both. E.H. 



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