BLAGK-EAEED WHEATEAB. 101 



INSECTIVOR^. 



Famihj SYLVIID^. 



Genus Saxicola. (Beclistein.J 



BLACK-EAEED WHEATEAR. 



Saxicola aurita. 



Vitiflora rubescens, Brisson ; Orn., p. 457, 1760. 



" aurita, Bonaparte, 1838. 



Motacilla stapa%ina, (var. ^.) Gmelin ; Syst., vol. i., p. 966, 1788. 



Sylvia stapazina, {va.r. (3.) Latham; Ind., p. 531, 1790. 



Saxicola aurita, Temminck; Man., 2nd. Edit., vol. i., 



p. 241, 1820. 



" " SCHINZ, 1840. SCHLEGEL, 1 844. 



stapazma, Dresser ; B. of E. 



^nanthe albicollis, Vieillot ; Faun. Fr., p. 190. 



Le Moteux Regnauhy, Vieillot. 



Traquet Oreillard, Of the French. 

 Schivarzohriger Steinschmdizer, Of the Germans. 



Monachella, Of Savi and Stor. 



Specific Characters. — Throat always white or whitish ; rest as in Stapazina. 

 Length five inches seven to nine lines. — Temminck. Length of specimen 

 sent me by Mr. Tristram, six inches. 



The Black-eared Wheatear is an inhabitant of the middle-sized 

 mountains of tlie south, of Europe, and, according to Temminck, is 

 more common in the north of Italy than the preceding species. It 

 is frequently found on the shores of the Mediterranean, in the 

 Apennines, in the lUyrian Provinces, in Sardinia, Neapolitan States, 

 and Spain, but, like the preceding species, never in the centre of 



