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be regarded as dimorphic forms of the same species. All the 

 individuals obtained in Egypt, Greece, Crete, and Asia Minor 

 are of the eastern form. — IL F. W.'\ 



CEnanthe pleshanka cypriaca Homeyer. 



The Cypriote race of the Pied Wheatear was met with in 

 October near Famagusta, where it was fairly plentiful, 

 frequenting both the plains and the scrub-clad slopes of the 

 foot-hills. 



Old birds and young of the year were both obtained, and 

 the species had every appearance of being resident. The 

 facts that no other species of Wheatear was present, and that 

 the Pied Wheatear was not met with in Egypt during the 

 previous autumn, seem to lend support to this view. 



Their stomachs contained insects, seeds and insects, and a 

 grasshopper. 



[The specimens collected (in October) are all in freshly 

 moulted plumage and are very dark coloured on the upper 

 parts. The cream-colour of the head and nape is almost 

 entirely concealed by the long brownish-black fringes of the 

 feathers. The small size of this form is perhaps a better 

 character than its dark coloration. The following are wing- 

 measurements of males : — 



Qi. p. cypriaca: 83 to 90 mm. (seventeen specimens, of 

 Avhich only one measured so much as 90 mm.). 



(JE. p. pleslumka : 90 to 100 mm. (twenty specimens, of 

 which only one measured so little as 90 mm.). 

 —H. F. TV.] 



Saxicola torquata rubicola (L.). 



In Egypt and Malta the Stonechat was observed as a 

 winter visitor only, but in Crete, Sicily, and Sardinia it 

 occurred both in winter and summer. In Crete the bird 

 seemed to be a resident, and also, as in Andalusia, where 

 many of the first broods are out of the nest so early as the 

 last week of jNIarch, an early breeder. But in Sardinia and 

 Sicily the nests were made a month or more later, so it is 



