. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . straight, and rather broaderthan deep at the base, where it is surrounded by a fewhairs; upper mandible slightly obtuse, sloped, and curved onlyat the point; nostrils oval, half-closed by a membrane; tarsuslong, slender, and compressed; outer toe connected by amembrane to the middle. Wings of medium length, reachingto the middle of the tail when closed; first quill about halfas long as the second, the second shorter than the third orfourth, which are the longest; the greater wing coverts muchshorter than the quills. Tail m
. A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles . straight, and rather broaderthan deep at the base, where it is surrounded by a fewhairs; upper mandible slightly obtuse, sloped, and curved onlyat the point; nostrils oval, half-closed by a membrane; tarsuslong, slender, and compressed; outer toe connected by amembrane to the middle. Wings of medium length, reachingto the middle of the tail when closed; first quill about halfas long as the second, the second shorter than the third orfourth, which are the longest; the greater wing coverts muchshorter than the quills. Tail medium length, slightly roundedor square, consists of twelve quills. BLACK WHEATEAR. Saxicola leucura. Tardus leucurus, Gmelin ; Syst., 820, 1788. Latham; Ind., 1790.^nanthe leticura, Vieillot; Diet, et Fauu. Fr., 1818. Saxicola cacchinans, Temminck; Manual, 1820. SCHINZ. SCHLEGEL. leucura, Keysebling and Blasius; Die Wirbelt, 1840. leucura, Bonaparte, 1838. Druinolicu leucura, Cabanis. Bonapaete. Tkistkam; (Ibis.) LocHE. Traquet Ricur, Of the m -^^ ■-» V \ BLACK WHEATEAK, IIU Scliwarzer Steinschmatzer, Of Metee. Ctdhianco Ahhrunato, Of Savi and Maemora. Specific Characters.—Plumage black, or blackisli, witli the upperand lower tail coverts white; tail -white, with half of the twomiddle quills and the posterior fourth of the laterals black. Lengthof male sent me by the Eev. H. B. Tristram, seven inches; femalesis inches and a quarter. Cabanis lias separated tliis bird, witli some others,from the geuus Saxicola, and included it under that ofDromolcea, in consequence of its habits being differentfrom those of the typical Wheatears. He has beenfollowed by Bonaparte and others, who, by adopting,have acquiesced in the propriety of the have not space here to do more than account formy own reasons for preferring the retention of thisspecies in the genus Saxicola. I do not for a momentquestion the grounds upon which this separation ismade, as
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