92 TURDID,!;. 



ICouticola saxatilis. Aock-Theush. 



Turdus saxatilis Linmeus, Syst. Nat. 12tb ed. i. X766, 

 p. 294 : Austria. 



Monticola saxatilis (Linn.) ; Seehohm, Oat. Birds B. M. v. 185^1, 



p. 313; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 5; 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 17. 



/8oiC«(«lts=that dwells among rocks. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. It has 

 been recorded from Hertfordshire, May 1843 ; Yorkshire, 

 June 1852; Pentland Skerries, Orkneys, May 1910; Sussex, 

 Sept. 1911 ; and is said to have been obtained in Kent. 



General Distribution. — The Rock-Thrush breeds in the 

 mountains of central and southern Europe and north-west 

 Africa ; also in the mountains of Asia from the Caucasus, 

 Asia Minor, Syria, and Persia through southern Siberia and 

 Mongolia to northern China. It winters in tropical Africa, 

 northern India, and China, and has occurred in Heligoland. 



Genus PH(ENICURUS Forster, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 

 1817, p. 16. 



Type : P. phwnicurus (Linn.). 



Fhoenicurus phcenicurus. Bedstakt. 



Motacilla phcenicurus Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 187: 



Sweden. 



fiuticilla phcenicurus (^Linn.) ; Seehohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 1881, 

 p. 336; B. O. TJ. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 8; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 31. 



Phffi»WMn*s=o ijioiviKovpos, the redtail, in Aristotle, Hist. An. ix. 49 b, 4; 

 from ^oii'iC=purple-red, and ovpa=the tail. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Summer Visitor 

 locally but widely distributed over the mainland of Britain, 

 less frequent in the far north and south-west, and very local 

 in Ireland, but breeds in cos. Wicklow and Tyrone. A Bird 

 of Passage from the Shetlands southwards, m;iinly on the east 

 coast, in spring and autumn when en route to and from its 



