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at the hase of the inner webs of all the quills, except the exterior, corresponding and opposite 
to orange brown patches on the outer webs. The sides are tinged with plumbeous ; many of 
the feathers margined with this color. 
List of specimens. 
Cat.il. 
No. 
Sex. 
Locality. 
Wlien collect¬ 
ed. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig’l 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Remarks. 
5998 
Jail. 8, 1857 
597 
5997 
596 
5996 
598 
5941 
Q 
.do... 
5940 
3 
9.00 
14.75 
5942 
9.25 
15.25 
8125 
Jan. 30, 1854 
20 
9.00 
12.75 
8126 
Jan. 12, 1854 
14 
9.50 
15.00 
8122 
3 
14 
9.50 
* 15.00 
1844 
3 
Jan. 18,1836 
S. F. Baird. 
1883 
9 
4488 
3916 
3 
8124 
J. Xantus de Vesey. 
SAXICOLA, Bechstein. 
Saxicola, Bechstein, Gemeinniitzige Naturg. 1802. (Agassiz.) (Type S. oenanthe.) 
Cii.—C ommissure slightly curved to the well notched tip. Culmen concave for the basal half, then gently decurving. 
Gonys straight. Bill slender, attenuated ; more than half the length of head. Tail short, broad, even. Legs considerably 
longer than the head ; when outstretched reaching nearly to the tip of tail. Third quill longest ; second but little shorter. Claws 
long, slightly curved ; hind toe rather elongated. 
The genus Saxicola > represented in North America by stragglers of a single European species, 
is usually placed far apart from Turdus in ornithological systems, and generally in close 
association with Sialia in a sub-family Saxicolinae. As, however, of the numerous other allied 
genera of Saxicolinae in the old world, these two are the only ones found in the new, it will 
create no confusion to bring them with Turdus into one sub-family, Turdinae, in view of their 
really close relationships. 
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SAXICOLA OENANTHE, Bechst. 
Stone Chat. 
J\Iotacilla oenanthe, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766. 
“ Saxicola oenanthe, Bechst. Gemein. Naturg. 1802,” and of European writers, as of Bonap. Consp. 1850, 303. 
? Saxicola oenanthoidcs, Vigors, Zool. Blossom, 1839, 19, (N. W. coast.)— Cassin, Illust. I, vn, 1854, 208 ; pi. xxxiv. 
(Nova Scotia.) 
S P . Ch. —(Description from European specimen.) Forehead, line over the eye, and under parts generally, white ; the latter 
tinged with pale yellowish brown, especially on the breast and throat. A stripe from the bill through, below, and behind the 
eye, with the wings, upper tail coverts, bill and feet black. Tail white, with an abrupt band of black (about .60 of an inch 
long) at the end, this color extending further up on the middle feather. Rest of upper parts ash gray ; quills and greater coverts 
slightly edged with whitish. Length, 6.00 ; wing, 3.45 ; tail, 2.50 ; tarsus, 1.05. 
Hab. —Greenland. Accidental in northern part of North America. Common in Europe. 
The preceding description is taken from a South European skin of this species,.which, in all 
