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is certainly migratory in Asia Minor. A solitary male was 
shot at Zebil on February 23rd. It had probably wintered 
on the coast, as a similar specimen was on a former occasion 
procured on the rocky island of Gastello Eosso, Dec. 15th. 
The next appearance of the Arabian Chat was at Anascha, 
March 9th, one male only being seen; but the following day 
the bare stony ground in the valley below the village swarmed 
with birds of this species. • A strong gale had been blowing 
all the night, during which they must have arrived. Among 
them were a few Isabelline Chats. These were much shyer 
than the others, with whom they were continually fighting. 
The pure black-and-white plumage of the males of erythrcBa 
makes them very conspicuous, and accounts in a measure for 
their appearing to be much more numerous than the females. 
They frequented both stony ground and ploughed land, and 
remained in the same neighbourhood from the 9th to the 18th 
March. After this date, with the exception of one or two 
seen on the barren mountain-tops, not a single bird of this 
kind was met with until they were found breeding in the rocky 
districts of the interior. 
90. SaXICOLA ISABELLINA, Eupp. 
In the mountains this Chat is common and well distributed, 
frequenting barren ground, bushy hill-sides, and even fir- 
woods. Arrived March 9th. In the steppe-country it is 
especially abundant, far more so than any other Chat. Its 
notes are very peculiar, the most striking being a cry resem- 
bhng that of a Sandpiper, which is uttered as the bird de¬ 
scends, after its hovering fiight and Lark-like song. 
91. CossYPHA GUTTURALis (Guer.). 
Not observed in the Taurus, but exceedingly common in 
the gardens near Kaisariyeh, where it breeds in the numerous 
loose-stone walls by which they are divided. Also abundant 
in the bushy hill-districts near Chorum, but never seen in 
the wooded country near the Black Sea. A large series shows 
considerable variation in the size of the white throat-stripe, 
the depth of the rufous coloration of the underparts, and the 
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