TURDID^. 



A specimen was erroneously recorded as shot in West- 

 meath, November 17, 1866 {' Zoologist/ 1870, p. 2019; 1880, 

 p. 67). It is a South-European and Asiatic species which 

 has once occurred in Heligoland.] 



Genus SAXICOLA, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. p. 216 



(1802). 



Saccicula = tiiat dwells among rocks; from sax«m -|- colere. 



Saxicola oenanthe. Wheateae. 



Motacilla Oenanthe, Linn. S. N. i. p. 332 

 (1766). 



Saxicola oenanthe, Naum. iii. p. 863; Macy. ii. p. 289 

 Hewitson, p. 110; Gray, p. 55; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 276 

 id. ed. 3, i. p. 286; Newton, i. p. 347; Gould, ii. pi. 45 

 Harting, p. 13 ; Dresser, ii. p. 187. 



Wheatear, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 253. 



(EnantJie = olvavBi], the bird that appears when the Tine shoots (Aristotle, 

 Hist. An. ix. 49 b, 8) ; from oivrj = the Tine, and dv9os = a blossom or sprout. 



A regular summer migrant, breeding on downs and in 

 moorland districts throughout the British Islands, also in 

 Central and Northern Europe, westwards as far as Green- 

 land, and eastwards across Siberia into Alaska. Winters in 

 Africa, Persia, and Intlia. 



Saxicola stapazina. Black- throated Wheateae. 



CEnanthe stapazina, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. xxi. 

 p. 425 (1818). 



Saxicola stapazina, Naum. iii. p. 879. 



Saxicola rufa (Russet Chat), Dresser, ii. p. 207. 



Stapazina, the Linnean name, latinized from the Bolognese Strapazino, used 

 by AldroTand, Willughby, &o., as if connected with It. strapazeare = to insult 

 or work coarsely 



One was shot near Bury, Lancashire, May 1875 (P. Z. S. 



