PLACE,
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ROCK
S.
D escription.
F emale.
M a le.
brown band ; quills brown : the tail is much cuneiform in Ibapej
in colour brown j but the four outer feathers on each fide have
white tips : legs and claws black.
This is a Cbinefe bird, and called in thofe .parts bp the name of
Kowkai-kon. .
Lanius infauflus, Lin. SjflA. p. ijS . N°2j.
Corvus infaulius, Brim. p. 10.—Muller, p. 12. 93.
l e Merle de Roche, Brif. crn. ii. p. 238. N° 13__Bnf.nif. iii. p. jyt.
pi. 23.— PI, tnl. 562.
Merula faxatilis, Aldrov. Rati fyn. p.,68. N°^.
CodirolTo maggiore, Olin. uccel. t. 47.
Greater Redftart, Will. am. p. 197. pi. ^6.— Allin. iii. pi. 55.
A L IT T L E lefs than a Blackbirds length leven inches and
three quarters. The bill about an inch long, and blackilh:
the head and neck dark alh-colour, marked .with .fmall rufous
fpots : the upper part of the back dark brown; the lower much
paler, inclining to afh, efpecially towards the ta il: quills and
wing coverts dulky, with pale margins: bread, and under parts of
the body, orange, marked with .fmall fpots, fome of which are
white, and others brown: the tail is three inches in length j the
two middle feathers are brown, the others rufous : legs blackilh:
the wings and tail are 'even. This is the defcription of the
female.
The male is faid to differ very little, except in being of a
brighter colour.
This is met with in many parts of Kurope, from Italy on the
one hand, to RuJJia * on the other : found in fome parts o f Germany,
the Alpine Mountains, thofe of Tyrol, and fuch-like places.
* Georg• Bujf, 7 The
The manners of this bird feerri difputed ; one author * mentions,
that it perches on a high done, and as foon as a markfman
appears with his gun, removes to a greater didance, and fo on, as
often as he approaches; which renders this fpecies difficult to
come at. Others f , on the contrary, fay, that it is.- a bold bird,
attending the traveller while at his meal, on purpofe to feed on
his fcraps.
Some authors rank this with the Thrujhes, and others with the
Crow genus ; it feems much allied to the lad, from having the
nodrils covered with recumbent feathers, as in thofe birds. Lin-
n<eus obferves, that the lad, the following, and this, all agree in
a certain loofe texture of feathers, rendering them peculiar.
It has an agreeable note of its own J, approaching to that of the
Hedge-fparrow, and will alfo learn to imitate that of others. It
makes the ned among the holes of the rocks, &c. hiding it with
great art, and lays three or four eggs, feeding the young with
worms and inferits, on which it alfo feeds itfelf. It may be
taken young from the ned, and brought up as the Nightingale.
Turdus faxatilis, Lin, Syjt. i. p. 294.
Le petit Merle de Roche, Brif. orn. ii. p. 240. N° 14.
Blau-kopfiige Rothe Amfel, Frtfch. t. ^2.
T HIS is rather lefs. The head, throat, and neck are blueilh
alh, marked with rufous and brown fpots: back and rump
blackifh, mixed with cinereous blue and rufous : lower part of
the back white and alh-colour: the tail and under parts of the
body the fame as in the lad bird.
* Buffbit. f Brunnich, Linnaus.
J Allin fays, that it is frequently kept in cages for its finging, vol. iii. p. 51.
A a One
»77
M anners, &c.
27.
V ar . A.
LESSER ROCK
S.
D escription;