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Title: A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, J.C. Nimmo
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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.One near Scarborough, April 12, 1876 (white spot): Fields May 6, 1876 ; Tuck, Zool, 1876, p. 4956.One near Lowestoft, July 1877 (red spot): J. P. Moore, MS. and coloured drawing.Several at Spurn during Sept. and Oct. 1883-86 (red spot) :. Cordeaux, Zool, 1891, p. 362.One, Monach Island Lighthouse, Outer Hebrides, Oct. 11,^ 1888, arrived with Redstarts in a gale, from N. and N.E., with snow : Harvie - Brown, Fauna Outer Hebrides, p. 352.One, North Cotes, Lincolnshire, Sept. 20, 1892 (red spot): Caton Haigh, Zool, 1892, p. 417.One, Spurn, Sept. 22, 1892: Cordeaux, Nat, 1893, p. 9.One, Cley, Norfolk, Sept. 7, 1896: R. Gurney, Field, Sept. 1896 ; Zool, 1897, p. 132. BLACK-THROATED WHEATEAR. Saxicola stapazina,Vieillot. PI. 7, fig. 13. Length, 8 in.; bill, 0-6 in.;wing, 3-5 in.; tarsus, 0-9 in. Hah. South of France, Spain, Western Algiers, andMorocco, wintering in Western Africa. One, Bury, Lancashire, May 8, 1875: Sclater, Proc. ZoolSoc, 1878, pp. 881-977, and Harting, Zool, 1879, p. 30,
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o e 6 « 13-^ 6 o WARBLERS 35 3 an adult male. Figured by Saunders, Manual, p.23, and by Dresser, Birds of Europe, under the nameSaxicola rufa. Ohs. This bird, the Russet-coloured Wheatear ofEdwards (Nat. Hist. Birds, 1743, p. 31, pi. xxxi.),is regarded as a western form of the Black-throatedWheatear, Saxicola melanoleuca (Giildenstiidt), dif-fering from it in having the black on the throatmuch less extended, and in having both dorsal andventral feathers more suffused with buflf. In fact,it is more rufous at all seasons than its closely alliedcongener. See note on a rare Wheatear seen nearSpurn on Sept. 18, 1892, Cordeaux, Zool, 1892,p. 424. ISABELLINE WHEATEAR. Saxicola isahellina, Rup-pell. Length, 6-5 in.; bill, 0-7 in.; wing, 3*75 in.;tarsus, 1*2 in. Hab. Northern Russia, Asia Minor, and Palestine;wintering in Eg3rpt, Nubia, and Abyssinia, as well as inN.W. India. One, Allonby, Cumberland, Nov. 11, 1887: Macpher-son. Ibis, 1888, p. 149. Zool, 1888, p. 320; Saunders, Manual, p. 21,

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