TURDINA. 25 
THE DESERT-WHEATEAR. 
SaxicOLA DESERTI, Riippell. 
Although the Desert-Wheatear has a still more southern habitat 
than the preceding species, it has undoubtedly been obtained on 
three occasions in Great Britain. The first example, a male in 
autumn plumage, shot on the 26th November 1880, near Alloa in 
Clackmannanshire, was sent for exhibition at a meeting of the 
Zoological Society (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 453), by its owner, Mr. J. J. 
Dalgleish. The second, a bird in female plumage, obtained on 
the Holderness coast, Yorkshire, October 17th 1885, was sent for 
exhibition by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 835), 
and is in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. A third—apparently 
a young male—was shot near Arbroath on December 28th 
1887, and was exhibited at a meeting of tne Zoological Society 
of London on March 6th 1888, on behalf of the late Lt.-Col. 
H. M. Drummond-Hay, who published details in ‘The Ibis,’ 
1888, p. 283. 
Three wanderers of this species have been obtained on Heligo- 
land: a male on October 26th 1856; a female on October 4th 
1857 (these being originally and erroneously recorded as S. stapa- 
