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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



3$abelline Wbeatear, 



THE Isabelline Wheatear (Saxicola Isabellina, Ruppell), 

 which is an extremely rare autumn migrant to the British 

 Islands, is a resident in North-East Africa (from Abyssinia 

 to Egypt) and Palestine. It nests also in South-East 

 Russia and temperate Asia, and in winter migrates south- 

 ward. Howard Saunders says that this wheatear may easily 

 be mistaken for the female of the common wheatear, but 

 the broader lining to the quills will always distinguish it. 

 According to Bowdler Sharpe, it is also longer in the tarsus. 

 Length, about six inches. 



