SYLVIID.E. 
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FAMILY. — SYLVIIDiE. 
SUB-FAMILY. — SAXICOLLNYE. 
Saxicola. 
Saxicola, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. p. 216 (1802). 
145. Saxicola CBixantlie. 
Motacilla oenanthe, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 352. 
Saxicola oenanthe , Strickl. P. Z. S. 1836, p. 98 ; 1850. p. 
216 : Blanf. & Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 218: Newton, ed. Yarr. 
Brit. B. i. p. 347. 
a, — b Aberdovey (II. E. Strickland) Ang. 1833. — c (Askew) 
1834. — d Smyrna (H.E. Strickland) April, 1836. ■ — e, — /Britain ? 
(N. C. Strickland) 1838. — g Senegal ( Isaacson ) 1840. — Kartoum 
Oct. 1848 (J. Petherick) 1848. 
146. Saxicola albicollis. 
Motacilla stapazina, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 331 ( partim ). 
(Enanthe albicollis , Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. N. xxi. p. 424. 
Saxicola aurita, Temm. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 341 : Strickl. P. Z. 
S. 1836, p. 98. 
a $ Morea (H. E. Strickland) May 1836. —b £ Smyrna 
(H. E. Strickland) April, 1836. 
147. Saxicola stapazina. 
Saxicola stapazina, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 331 (partim). 
(Enanthe stapazina, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. N. xxi. p. 428. 
Saxicola stapazina, Temm. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 239. 
a S. Europe (Bt. at Dresden) 1845. 
In 1843 Strickland, in his notes to Col. Drummond-Hay’s Cata- 
logue of Birds found in Corfu &c. (Ann. & Mag. N. H. xii. pp. 416, 
424) refers to the supposed identity of S. stapazina and S. albicollis 
(aurita), and remarks that the former having been found breeding in 
Corfu, the distinctness of the latter would be proved on its being 
found to breed in Crete. In a notice of Malherbe’s ‘Faune Ornitho- 
logique de la Sicile’ (Ann. & Mag. N. H. xiv. p. 432) attention is 
drawn to his assertion of their distinctness. Though Strickland 
as late as 1849 (Contr. Orn. p. 60) still seemed undecided on the 
