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occurred in *Clackmannanshire, Nov. 1880; Yorkshire, Oct. 

 1885 ; *Forfarshire, Dec. 1887 ; Norfolk, Oct. 1907. 



General Distribution. The Western Desert Wheatear is a 

 resident in the Sahara, from Cape Blanco to Egypt and north 

 Arabia, and has once been obtained in Italy. 



GEnanthe deserti albifrons. EASTERN 

 DESERT WHEATEAR. 



Saxicola albifrons Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ii. 

 1844, p. 139 : W. Siberia. 



Saxicola deserti atrogularis Blyth ; Hartert, Vog. pal. Faun. 

 i. 1910, p. 684. 



Albifrons, from albus, white, and /rows, a forehead. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. It has 

 occurred at the Pentland Skerries, Orkneys, June 1906, and 

 in Kent, May 1913. 



General Distribution. The Eastern Desert Wheatear 

 breeds from south Caucasus throughout the steppes and desert 

 regions of central Asia to Ordos and Koko-Nor. It migrates 

 through south-west Asia to India, southern Arabia, Sokotra, 

 and north-east Africa. 



(Enanthe leucomela. PIED WHEATEAR. 



Saxicola leucomela Pallas, Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. pt. i. 

 1770, p. 584, pi. xxii. fig. 3 : Samara, Russia. 



Saxicola morio Hempr. et EJir. ; SeeboJim, Cat. Birds B. J v. 



1881, p. 372. 

 Saxicola plesclianka (Lepecli.) ; Baxter fy Bintoul, Ann. Scottish 



N. H. 1910, p. 2. 



Leucomela= black and white ; from Xevieos and /ie\as. 

 Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. It 

 has occurred at the Isle of May, Fife, Oct. 1909 the only 

 known visit. 



General Distribution. This species breeds from the 

 Dobruja and the Caucasus eastwards to south-eastern Siberia 



* The racial form of the species in the records marked thus ie doubtful 



