. Uccelli di New York . lar ala barand il collare nero, con le marcature nere e le marcature nere e rossastre gialle sul lato della testa, lo distinguerà immediatamente tra i fratelli più comuni. Saxicola enanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin) Groenlandia Wheatear Motacilla leucorhoa Gmelin. Sist. NAT. 1789. 1:966 Saxicola enantthe leucorhoa A. O. U. elenco di controllo. Ed. 3. 1910. pag. 366. 76sa saxicola, Lat., abitante di roccia; enantha, Gr., nome di qualche piccolo uccello; leucorhoa,Gr., bianco-rumped Descrizione. In siimmer, grigio asino; linea sopra l'occhio, sotto parti,e parte basale della coda, bianco; senosomiti
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. Birds of New York . lar wing barsand the black collar, with the black markings and black and reddish yellowmarkings on the side of the head, will distinguish him at once among hismore common brethren. Saxicola oenanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin) Greenland Wheatear Motacilla leucorhoa Gmelin. Syst. Nat. 1789. 1:966 Saxicola oenanthe leucorhoa A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 366. No. 76sa saxicola, Lat., rock dweller; oenanthe, Gr., name of some small bird; leucorhoa, Gr., white-rumped Description. In siimmer, ashy gray; line over the eye, under parts, and basal portion of tail, white; breastsometimes tinted with buff; wings andterminal portion of tail Mack; broadline from the nostril through the eyeand ^along side of the head black; billand feet black. Female: Slightly morebrownish. In winter: Both adultsand young olive brown above; underparts cinnamon brown; wings and tailmuch as in summer. Length 6.75 inches; extent 12.5;wing 4; tail 2.38; tarsus 1.2. Female:slightly smaller. Distribution. This subspecies of. the Wheatear breeds in northeastern wheatear. Saxicola oenanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin), Arctic America from Elsmere Land PromHudson-s-British Birds.- inat.si.e and Boothia peninsula to eastern Greenland, Iceland and northern Ungava.It winters in west Africa, migrating through the Shetland isles and Great 536 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Britain, occasionally straggling down the Atlantic coast to Quebec, Brions-wick, Bermuda, Louisiana and Cuba. The Greenland Wheatear in NewYork has only four records, all of which have appeared in print as follows:Long Island, Lawrence collection (Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. 8, 1866, page 282); Junius, Seneca county, September 9, 1872 (Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Birds of North America, p. 501); Long Island, about 1863, female, adult, collection D. G. Elliot, in the AmericanMuseum Natural History (Allen, Auk, 3:490); Jamaica, 1885, collectionof Long Island Historical Society (Butcher, Auk, 10:277). The western New York specimen co
