100 TURDID.E. 



spring and autumn when moving to and from its northern 

 European summer haunts and its southern winter quarters. 



General Distribution. The Wheatear breeds all over 

 Europe, apparently, with the possible exception of southern 

 Spain ; also in northern and central Asia, and Alaska. The 

 only wintering place known at present is tropical Africa. 

 In the Atlas range of north Africa the allied (E. seebolimi 

 is found. * 



CEnanthe oenanthe leucorrhoa. GREENLAND 

 WHEATEAK. 



Motacilla leucorrhoa Gmelin, Syst. Nat, i. pt. 2, 1789, 

 p. 966 : Senegal. 



Saxicok oenanthe (Linn.} ; SeeloTim, Oat. Birds B. M. v. 1881, 



p. 391 (part.). 

 Saxicola oenanthe leucorrhoa Gmel. ; V. B. Ticehurst, British 



Birds, ii. 1909, p. 271. 



Leucorrhoa = white-marked ; from the Greek words XF.VKOS and poos. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bird of Passage 

 between its summer haunts and its winter quarters, when it 

 is observed in spring and autumn chiefly on our coasts, and 

 at the northern and western Islands of Scotland. 



General Distribution. This Wheatear breeds in Greenland, 

 north-east America from Davis Strait to Labrador ; and 

 possibly in Iceland and the Faeroes. It migrates through 

 western Europe to the Canary Islands, the Azores, and 

 north-west Africa to Senegambia ; also in America casually 

 as far south as Louisiana and Colorado. 



(Enanthe isabellina. ISABELLINE WHEATEAR. 



CEnanthe isabellina Cretzschmar, Atlas zu RtippeH's 

 Reise, Vogel, 1826, p. 52, pi. 34 b : Nubia. 



Saxicola isabellina (Cretz.) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 1881, 



p. 399 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 21. 

 Itabellina=-t awn-coloured from the French isabelle. 



