PIED WHEATEAB. 



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INSECTIVOR.E. 

 Family SYLVIIDJ]]. 



Genus Saxicola. f Bechstein.J 



PIED WHEATEAR. 



Saxicola leucomela. 



Motacilla leucomela, 

 Saxicola leucomela, 



" lugens, 



Vitiflo7'a leucomela, 

 Traquet leucomele, Motteux 



leucomele, Motteux pleschaiika, 

 Elster Bteinschmdt%er, 



Pallas; Nov. Comm. Petrop., xiv., p. 584. 

 Temminck; Man., 2nd. Ed., vol. iii., p. 166. 

 Keyserling and Blasius. 

 ScHiNz. Schlegel. Degland. 

 LiCHTENSTEiN ; Cat. des doubles du Mus. 



de Berlin, p. 33. 

 Bonaparte. 



Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — First primary shorter than the third ; basal half of 

 two middle tail quills white, the other half black; upper tail coverts, white; 

 under tail coverts slightly tinged with russet. Length of male specimen 

 sent me by Mr. Tristram, six inches ; carpus to tip three inches and a 

 half; tarsus one inch. 



This bird is an inhabitant of tlie north of Europe, especially the 

 southern parts of Russia, the Dauria, the Altai Mountains, and 

 Lapland. There is a species found in India, which only differs from 

 the present in having the under tail coverts white instead of pale 

 russet. This is, however, thought sufficient, by Gray and others, to 

 separate it from the leucomela of Temminck; the consequence of which 

 is, we have two leucomelas, that of Latham in India, and that of 

 Temminck in Europe. 



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