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THE BLACK-THROATED WHEATEAR. 
SaxfcoLa STAPAZ{NA, Vieillot. 
A male in adult plumage of this handsome South-European 
species was shot about the 8th of May 1875, near Bury in Lanca- 
shire, and subsequently recorded by Mr. R. Davenport, who, as 
should always be done in the case of such rare visitors, sent the 
specimen for exhibition at a meeting of the Zoological Society 
(P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 881, 977). A bird, probably of this species, was 
seen and sketched by Mr. H. B. Hewetson near Spurn, Yorkshire, 
on September 18th 1892 (Zool. 1892, p. 424, and 1895, p. 57). 
Although some occurrences formerly recorded under this name in 
Heligoland were really those of the Desert-Wheatear, yet the 
present species seems to have been obtained there once; while 
Schlegel records it from Haarlem, Holland. It breeds regularly 
about as far north as the line of the Loire in France ; southward, in 
the Spanish Peninsula, Morocco, Algeria and Italy. In the latter 
country it meets with S. me/anoleuca, Giildenstadt : a form which 
some ornithologists consider to be specifically distinct, characterized 
by a whiter back and larger amount of black on the throat. This 
form occupies Greece, South Russia, Asia Minor, Palestine and 
Persia; both races migrating wholly or partially to more southern 
