Identifier: historybirdsEurIIBree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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chstein.J MENETEIES WHEATEAR. Saxicola saltatrix. Saxicola saltator, Meneteies; Cat. Cauc, 1836. saltatrix, EEYSEELisa and Blasius, Die Wirbelt; 1840. • ScHLEGEL; Eevue, 1844. Degland, 1849. Yitijlora saltatrix, Bonaparte, 1838. Traquet Oriental, Of the Feench. Ostlicher Sieinschmdtzer, Of the Geemans. Specific Characters.—The first primary equal in length, to thefourth feather of the greater wing coverts; the second a littlelonger than the fifth, the second and fourth about equal, butshorter than the third, which is the longest in the wing.Length of a specimen sent me by Mr. Tristram, and which isfigured, six inches and three-quarters; carpus to tip of wingfour inches; tail two inches. This bird is an inhabitant of Egypt, Nnbia, theUral Mountains, Greece, and borders of the CaspianSea. It is mentioned by Mr. Tristram, in his list ofthe Birds of Palestine, and by Dr. Hueglin, among-those collected by him during a voyage in the RedSea, (Ibis, vol. i., pages 29 and 341.) Dr. Hueglin
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MENETRIES WHEATEAR. 137 found it in tlie Dcxnakil country, between tlie Peninsulaof Buri and tlie Gulf of Tadjura, on the Somali coast,and in Southern Arabia. There is nothing to add about the habits of thisbird, which Mr. Tristram says are precisely similar tothose of the Common Wheatear. Head, nape, and back down to the rump, and wing-coverts, a mixture of buff with olivaceous green; rumpand basal half of tail pure Avhite. Wings brown, theprimaries after the fourth lightly, and the secondariesmore deeply bordered with the same colour as the back,but brighter, the same tint as the fringe being shewnwhere the colour of the back passes into the white ofthe rump. As usual in all the Wheatears I have de-scribed, the two middle tail feathers are black after thefirst third from base. Throat, neck, and lower part ofabdomen, dirty white; the chest and upper part of theabdomen, under wing and tail coverts, light buff. The colours above described of the feathers of thebody, are produced by tin

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