﻿OF THE NETHERLANDS. 



195 



female, wings 97 and 98 mm.; probably this is a northern 

 bird, still on migration. 



On migration in autumn there have been killed in our 

 country more specimens with longer wings than those of 

 our breeding birds. They all are probably northern birds, 

 the true Sa.ricola oenanthe (L.), while the breeding birds 

 of our country seem to belong, very probably, to a different 

 subspecies, having shorter wings and as a rule a narrower 

 black band at the tail {Saxicola oenanthe (/risea Brehm, 

 cf. 0. Kleinschmidt, Berajah, 1905). 



We possess three such specimens, viz. : 

 young cT, 9 September 1854, dunes at Zandvoort, Noord- 



Holland (Coll. van Wickevoort Crommelin, 66 — 3; wings 



101 and 102, tail 59 mm.); 

 young c^, 10 September 1863, near Leiden (wing 102, 



tail 59 mm.) ; 



young cT, 6 September 1906, Texel (wing 100, tail 61 mm.). 



234. Saxicola oenanthe leiicorhoa (Gmelin). [Langvleugel- 

 tapuit]. 



There are three examples in our collection, which appear 

 to me to be the true long- winged Greenland form, viz. : 

 adult cf, in the rufous autumn plumage, labelled only 



„Hollande" (wing 105, tail 69, bill 13 mm,); 

 young cf, shot 29 March 1880 at Katwijk (wing 105, 



tail 65, bill 14 mm.); 

 adult 9, shot 27 April! 862 at Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland 



(Coll. van Wickevoort Crommelin, 66 — 6; wings 102 and 



103, tail 62, bill 12 mm.). 



235. Saxicola stapazina (L.). [Blonde tapuit]. 



We have no specimen from the Netherlands. According 

 to H. Schlegel (Herklots, Bouwst. Faun. Ned. II, 1858, 

 p. 209 — Schlegel, Vogels v. Ned. 1854—58, p. 168) and 

 N. Groenewegen (Herklots, Bouwst. Faun. Ned. II, 1858, 

 p. 289) this species has been killed in our country. On the 



Notes from the Leyden IMtiseutn, Vol. XXX. 



