ISABELLINE WHEATEAR.
SAXJCOLA ISA B E L L IN A , Cretzschm.
Saxicola isabellina, Cretzschmar in RuppelFs Atlas, Yog.
p. 52; Rupp. Neue Wirb., Yog. p. 80; Dresser, ii.
p. 199; Saunders, Man. Br. B. p. 21.
One occurrence. A solitary individual was shot by
Mr. Thomas Mann on a ploughed field at Allonby,
in Cumberland, on 11th November, 1887, and the
specimen, a female, was determined by Mr. Saunders and
Rev. H. A. Macpherson to be an Isabelline Wheatear.
The usual range of this species extends over Southeastern
Russia, Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and
North-east Africa; it also includes Persia, Central and
Eastern Asia, as well as Baluchistan and North-western
India.
The Isabelline Wheatear may be distinguished from
the female of the Common Wheatear, which it closely
resembles, by the smaller amount of white at the base
of the outer rectrices, and by1 the axillaries and under
wing-coverts being pure white without dark centres.
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ISABELLINE WHEATEAR.
