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to have been an adult male Black Chat, was seen on 

 Heligoland, but was not obtained. 



The range of the Black Wheatear or Chat is, roughly, 

 southern Europe and northern Africa. Throughout the 

 Iberian peninsula, except in the extreme north, and at 

 Gibraltar, it is common ; in southern France and Italy, 

 although rarer, it also occurs, but principally, if not 



Male Black Wheatear, Saxicola leucura (Gm.), shot on September 

 2nd, 1909, near Rye, Sussex. (About one-half natural size.) 



entirely, as a migrant. A few breed in Sardinia and 

 possibly also in Sicily, but there is no evidence of its 

 occurrence in Corsica or Greece. In northern Africa it 

 is the most generally distributed chat in Tunisia, being 

 especially abundant in the central portion ; it is also 

 common on the southern slopes of the Atlas in Algeria, 

 numerous in Morocco, and not uncommon in some districts 



