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112. Mourning Wheatear. A=nanthe lugens. 
4inanthe lugens lugens, Licht (Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berlin, p. 33, 
1823—Nubia). 
Weigold states that a pair were seen and the female obtained at Bumbudj on 
the Euphrates on April 8th; this is hardly in our area, but I mention it as 
Zarudny says he obtained it at Dizful on March 12th and at Sia Manssur in the 
same area on March 8th. Its status requires further investigation. Hartert 
(Vog. Pal. F., p. 695) does not mention its occurrence further north or east than 
Palestine. 
113. Persian Wheatear. A=nanthe persica. 
Ainanthe persica, Seeb (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. V, p. 372, 1881—Shiraz). 
Mentioned by Zarudny as a passage migrant in small numbers in the Karun 
area, and breeding in the Zagros. 
114. Indian Pied Wheatear. A=nanthe picata. 
Ainanthe picata, Blyth. (J. A. S. B. xvi., p. 131, 1847—between Sind 
and Ferozopore). 
One was obtained by Bailey at Shustar on January 15th. Zarudny gives it as 
a passage migrant in small numbers. Probably it is a scarce winter visitor to. 
the foot-hills in the Karun district only. 
115. White-tailed Wheatear. A=nanthe leucopyga. 
Ainanthe leucopyga, Brehm. (Vogelfang, p. 225, 1855—Assuan.) 
Zarudny says he obtained one near Ahwaz on February 26th, 1904. Thisis a 
considerable extension of this bird’s range north from S, Palestine and its status 
requires further investigation. 
116. Hume’s Wheatear. 4Enanthe alboniger. 
Ainanthe’ alboniger, Hume (Stray Feathers, i., p. 2, Nov. 1872—Hills 
of Sind). 
Buxton obtained a single specimen on the Diala River near Shahroban on 
November 22nd, 1918. Zarudny gives it as a winter visitor in the Karun district. 
From my knowledge of it elsewhere I should say it must be resident where it 
occurs. 
From the above list it will be seen that a very large number of kinds of Wheat- 
ears may be found in our area, and a good many of these are ‘“‘ black and white ” 
birds, chiefly or exclusively to be found on or near hilly ground. Any one who 
gets a chance to be in suitable situations for them I would remind ‘that their 
status is little known and that observations without specimens are well nigh 
useless, as in the field many are so alike. One or more species of black and 
white wheatear certainly nests in the Ahwaz district as Tomlinson found a nest 
on the Jebel Sanam on May 29th with fully fledged young. 
117. Whinchat. Saxicola rubetra. 
(i) Saxicola rubetra rubetra, I. (Syst. Nat. Ed. xi, p. 186, 1758— 
Sweden). 
(ii) Saxicola rubetra noskae, Tsch. (Orn. Jahrb., 1902, p. 234—N. 
Caucasas). 
(1) Zarudny lists the typical race as a rare winter visitor and passage 
migrant. As the Karun district is very far to the east of this bird's range, its 
occurrence requires further examination. 
(2) This race, to which our specimens belong, is apparently a winter visitor 
in small numbers, which are added to during the times of migration, but even 
then is not very common. Cumming at Fao recorded it in November and May. 
Buxton records it at Amara on December Ist, early September, and late in 
February. Hingston noted it at Feluja on November 22nd—whence Pitman 
