. A dictionary of birds . ses to the north andwest of the Stanovoi mountains, for Mr. Nelsons suggestion {Cruiseof the Conven, pp. 59, 60) of a north-west passage from BoothiaFelix, where Ross observed it, is less likely.^ More than 60 other species more or less allied to the Wheatearhave been described,^ but probably so many do not really 8 are included in the European fauna; but the majority areinhabitants of Africa. Several of them are birds of the desert;and here it may be remarked that, Avhile most of these exhibit thesand-coloured tints so commonly found in animals of like hab
. A dictionary of birds . ses to the north andwest of the Stanovoi mountains, for Mr. Nelsons suggestion {Cruiseof the Conven, pp. 59, 60) of a north-west passage from BoothiaFelix, where Ross observed it, is less likely.^ More than 60 other species more or less allied to the Wheatearhave been described,^ but probably so many do not really 8 are included in the European fauna; but the majority areinhabitants of Africa. Several of them are birds of the desert;and here it may be remarked that, Avhile most of these exhibit thesand-coloured tints so commonly found in animals of like habitat, afew assume a black plumage, which, as explained by Canon Tristram,is equally protective, since it assimilates them to the deep shadowscast by projecting stones and other inequalities of the surface. Of genera allied to, and by some writers included in, Saxicolathere is only need here to mention Praticola, which comprisesamong others two well-known British birds, the Stonechat andWhinchat, p. ruUcola and P.
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