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Show 1874.] THE GENUS SAXICOLA. 219 Saxicola libanotica, Ehr. Symb. Phys. Av. fol. bb (type examined) (1829). Saxicola septentrionalis, grisea et cinerea, Brehm, Vogel Deutschl. pp. 403, 405(1831). Saxicola cenanthoides, Vigors, Zool. Blossom, p. 19 (1839). Fitiflora cenanthe et major, Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 224 (1855). Saxicola leucorhoa, Hartl. Ornith. W . Afr. p. 64. no. 192 (1857). Adult male in breeding-plumage. Upper parts to the rump ashy grey ; forehead and superciliary line pure white ; a line through the eye from the lores to the ear-coverts jet-black ; wings blackish brown ; central rectrices black, basal third white, remaining rectrices white, broadly tipped with black; rump and upper tail-coverts pure white; underparts white to buff, often distinctly rufous on the throat and lower tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries mixed black and white. Culmen 0" 75, wing 3*8, tail 2*35, tarsus 1" 1. Male in winter plumage. Upper parts more or less brown ; the eye-stripe less distinct; lower parts more rufous than in the summer plumage; secondaries and wing-coverts broadly edged with rufous. Young males resemble the female. Adult female in breeding-plumage. Upper parts dull brown; wings hair-brown; tail as in the male, except that the terminal portion is brownish, not black; underparts light reddish brown, darkest on the breast, and becoming whitish on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. Adult female in winter. Similar to the above, but with the secondaries and wing-coverts broadly edged with rufous. Hab. Europe generally; Persia, Syria, Arabia, and Turkestan, Africa north of the equator, Greenland, and Eastern North America ; Behring's Straits. 2. SAXICOLA STAPAZINA. Red or Russet-coloured Wheatear, Edw. Nat. Hist. p. 31, pi. 31 (1743, partim). Ficedula vitiflora rufescens, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 457. no. 36, pi. 25. fig. 4 (1760). Ficedula vitiflora rufa, Briss. torn. cit. p. 459. no. 37 (1760, partim). Motacilla stapazina, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 331. no. 14 (1766, ex Edw.). Fitiflora rufa, Steph. Gen. Zool. x. p. 569 (1817). (Enanthe albicollis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 424 (1818). Saxicola aurita, Temm. M . d'Orn. i. p. 241 (1820). Sylvia rufescens, Savi, Orn. Tosc. i. p. 223 (1827). Saxicola amphileuca, Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol. bb (1829). Saxicola aurita, var. libyca, Ehr. torn. cit. pi. aa (1829). Fitiflora assimilis, C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 224. no. 7 (1850). Adult male in breeding-plumage. A narrow frontal line, lores, region round the eye, auricular space, including a large patch on the side of the neck, wings, scapulars, and wing-coverts jet-black; 15* |
