BIRDS OF NEW YORK 



535 



1905, 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. 1 : 966 



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



No. 765a 



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

 Gr., white-ramped 



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 wheatear 



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 



. Saxicola oenanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin)j 

 From Hudson's " British Birds." J nat. size 



