416 Mr. H. M. Druinmond : Cataluf/ue of Birds found 



St/lvia consp'icillatu. Very common : arrive 27th of March and remain 



all summer. 

 Regulus ignicapillus (B.). Found during the winter in Corfu, and 



frequent the olive-groves in considerable numbers : disappear in 



spring. 

 Troglodytes vulgaris (B.). Not very common, but remains during the 



year. 

 Suxicola oenanthe (B.). Common during the passage : arrives the 



end of March. 

 aurita. Arrives in considerable numbers 1st of April : does 



not remain. 



stapazina. Arrives in considerable numbers 1st of April : a 



few remain during the summer, and breed on the citadel rock at 

 Corfu ^ 



'•ubetra (B.). Rare : seen occasionally during the winter. 



rubicola (B.). Very common : remains all the year round. 



MotacUla alba. This is the common pied wagtail of the continent, 

 and differs from the English one ; is most numerous in winter, 

 when they may be seen in large flocks frequenting the marshes : 

 disappears in summer. 



flava (B. ?). This bird also differs from the common yel- 

 low wagtail of England in having the head in the breeding-sea- 

 son of a jet-black, at other times it is of a lead-colourf. These 

 birds appear in great numbers about the 1st of April, but disap- 

 pear in winter ; in the spring they are caught in large numbers by 

 means of the clapnet, and are sold for a penny a-piece to the 

 Greeks, who generally cut their wings and turn them loose in 

 their houses for the i^urpose of destroying the flies, which they 

 soon learn to do, catching them in the most dextrous manner ; 

 consequently this and the foregoing species only are known by 

 the name of the flycatcher. The Muscicapa is never used for this 

 purpose, 



* The general opinion among ornithologists now is, that Saxicola aurita 

 is only a different state of plumage of S. stapazina, though I believe their 

 identity is not yet actually demonstrated. On this point Capt. Drummond 

 writes to me, '' Saxicola stapazina and S. aurita I consider as decidedly 

 diifcrent birds. The aurita is far more numerous in Corfu during its passage 

 in the spring, but I have never seen it during the summer months; while, 

 on the other hand, the stapazina breeds there, and I have found their nests 

 on the citadel rocks." These facts however are quite consistent with the 

 specific identity of the two birds, for if the so-called S. aurita be only the 

 winter plumage of stapazina, its apparent disappearance in spring would 

 be owing, not to emigration, but to a change of costiune. — H. E. S. 



f This is an important statement, as the black-headed wagtail is consi- 

 dered by the Italian naturalists to be a distinct species from the gray-headed 

 ones, which they further divide into two species, one with a white stripe over 

 the eye {M.fava of North Europe and accidentally of Britain), and the 

 other without. Do all these three kinds inhabit the Ionian Islands ? and 

 do they all appear to pass into each other? It would be desirable to 

 ascertain whether these supposed changes of colour take place in the domes- 

 ticated individuals. — H. E. S. 



