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ISABELLINE WHEATEAE. 



SAXICOLA ISABELLINA, Cretzschm. 



Saxieola isabellina, Cretzschmar in RiippelFs Atlas^ Vog. 

 p. 52 ; Riipp. Neue Wirb., Vog. p. 80 ; Dresser, ii. 

 p. 199; Saunders, Man. Br. B. p. 21. 



One occurrence. A. solitary individual was shot by- 

 Mr. Thomas Mann on a ploughed field at Allonby, 

 in Cumberland, on 11th November, 1887, and the 

 specimen, a female, was determined by Mr. Saunders and 

 Rev. H. A. Macpherson to be an Isabelline Wheatear. 



The usual range of this species extends over South- 

 eastern Russia, Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and 

 North-east Africa ; it also includes Persia, Central and 

 Eastern Asia, as well as Baluchistan and North-western 

 India. 



The Isabelline Wheatear may be distinguished from 

 the female of the Common Wheatear, which it closely 

 resembles, by the smaller amount of white at the base 

 of the outer rectrices, and by the axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts being pure white without dark centres. 



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