The Black Throated Wheatear, The Desert Wheatear, The Whinchat. 33 



Family— TURDID/E. Subfamily— TURDINAi- 



The Black Throated Wheatear. 



Saxicola ^tapazma, VlElLL. 



A 



SINGLE male specimen was shot near Buty, in Lancashire, about the 8th 

 Ma}^ 1875 ; it belonged to the Eastern race of the species. 



Family— TURDIDyE. Subfamily— TURDINAl. 



The Desert Wheatear. 



Saxicola dcserti, RliPP. 



A MALE was shot near Alloa in Clackmannanshire, on the 26th November. 

 1880, a female on the Holderness coast, Yorkshire, on the 17th October. 

 1885, and a second near Arbroath on the 28th December, 1887. 



Family— TURDID/E. Subfamily— TL 'RDIN/E . 



The Whinchat. 



Pratiiicola riibctra, Lixx. 



BREEDS in suitable localities throughout Northern and Central Europe, its 

 eastern boundary in European Russia being probably the Ural Mountains; 

 it winters in Southern Europe and Northern Africa, extending its range west- 

 ward to Fantee and eastward to Abyssinia. It also occurs in. Arabia, i\sia 

 Minor and Northern India : but in the Indian examples the relative length of 

 the primaries is said to differ, and the birds themselves are larger than ours. 

 In Great Britain the Whinchat is pretty generally distributed; being abundant 

 in certain localities, but absent from many districts of Scotland, and somewhat 

 local in Ireland. 



