OP 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 

 couutry more specimens with longer wings than those of 

 our breeding birds. They all are probably northern birds, 

 the true Saxicoia 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 (Saxicoia oenanthe grisea Brehm, 

 cf. 0. Kleinschmidt, Berajah, 1905). 



We possess three such specimens, viz. : 

 young (ƒ, 9 September 1854, dunes at Zandvoort, Noord- 



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



101 and 102, tail 59 mm.); 

 young cTj 10 September 1863, near Leiden (wing 102, 



tail 59 mm.) ; 



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



234. Saxicoia oenanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin). [Langvleugel- 

 tapuit]. 



There are three examples in our collection, which appear 

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

 adult cT, 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 1862 at Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland 



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



103, tail 62, bill 12 mm.). 



235. Saxicoia 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 Leyclen Museum, "Vol. XXX. 



