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1;2() KUSSET WHEATKAR. 
About Marcli, says Count Mlihle, after every fre^li 
storm, bands of new arrivals of S. stapazina may be 
observed in Greece. They soon scatter themselves 
among the rocky hills, where they move about restlessly 
among Emheriza ccesia, Surma noctua, and Turdus 
cyanus. They always seem angry without there being 
any cause of alarm, and are constantly snapping and 
pecking one another, although they live at peace with 
other birds. 
They are very 'shy and circumspect, and build their 
nests in the holes of rocks, singly. The nest is made 
of blades of grass and the down of grass flowers, and 
generally contains five eggs, sea-green, sprinkled spa- 
ringly with pale-coloured spots. 
Of twenty-seven eggs examined by Moquin-Tandon, 
from the neighbourhood of Gignac, twenty were of a 
uniform blue, rather darker than the eggs of the 
Common Wheatear ; six had points, almost imperceptible, 
of brownish, particularly at the larger end; one had a 
deeper colour, with flve or six spots of brown black on 
the greater end. 
The adult male in breeding-plumage has the top of 
the head, nape, and upper part of back, rich buff*; 
lower part of the back white, mottled with black; 
rump, upper tail coverts, and three parts of the tail 
beneath, white; throat, and underneath eyes and ears, 
upper wing coverts, and two medium tail feathers, 
glossy black. Wings blackish brown; secondaries fringed 
with grey, and the primaries underneath blackish brown; 
chest, abdomen, flanks, and under tail coverts, light 
buff, more or less deep on the chest; forehead, and a 
line between the black of the throat and the neck, 
creamy white. Beak and feet, black; iris dark brown. 
In autumn, according to Degland, the top of the 
