. An illustrated manual of British birds . at merely mottled withblack ; the head streaked with hair-brown; upper back sandy-brown : wings dark brown; under parts dirty buff. The youngresemble the female in general, but are rather more rufous; and theyhave less white in the tail than the adults of the respective sexes. To obviate the perpetuation of confusion, I may remark that thespecies here described is the one which Mr. Dresser in his Birdsof Europe called Saxicola rufa (Russet Chat) ; but the bird wasre-instated under its old and well-known name by the Committee ofthe British Ornithologis
. An illustrated manual of British birds . at merely mottled withblack ; the head streaked with hair-brown; upper back sandy-brown : wings dark brown; under parts dirty buff. The youngresemble the female in general, but are rather more rufous; and theyhave less white in the tail than the adults of the respective sexes. To obviate the perpetuation of confusion, I may remark that thespecies here described is the one which Mr. Dresser in his Birdsof Europe called Saxicola rufa (Russet Chat) ; but the bird wasre-instated under its old and well-known name by the Committee ofthe British Ornithologists Union. Unfortunately Mr. Dresser hastransferred the specific name stapazina to the Eared Wheatear,S. albicollis (Vieill.), S. aurita (Temm.) : another southern species,which has not straggled to our islands, although erroneously enteredin the British list by Mr. W. E. Clarke (Cat. Yorkshire Yertebs. p. 19);a mistake copied by [Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley in theirrecent Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness and West Cromarty. 25. THE DESERT deserti, Riippell. Although the Desert Wheatear has a still more southern habitatthan the preceding species, it has undoubtedly been obtained ontwo occasions in Great Britain. The first example, a male inautumn plumage, shot on the 26th November iSSo, near Alloa inClackmannanshire, was sent for exhibition at a meeting of the Zoo-logical Society (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 453), by its owner, Mr. J- T- Dal-gleish; the second, a bird in female plumage, obtained on theHolderness coast, Yorkshire, 17th October 1885, was sent forexhibition by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 835). Threestragglers have been obtained on Heligoland : a male on 26th Oc-tober 1856; a female on 4th October 1857 (these being originallyand erroneously recorded as S. stapazind); and an adult male infull breeding-plumage, 23rd June 1880. The above appear to bethe only records of its occurrence in Europe. As implied by its name, the home of this spe
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