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CH EiS3N- U T-
BELLIED W.
D escription.
F emale;
Place and
Manners.
brown, and all the others tipped with brown, except the outer
one, which is wholly orange : legs brown.
Inhabits Gibraltar.
Motacilla erythrogaftra, N. C. Fttr. vol, xix. p. 469. N° 4. t. 16. 17. Jut.
J . Gucldenjlatdt.
g I Z E of a Wheat-ear: length feven inches. Bill black : eyes
brown : crown and nape dirty footy white : round the bill,
the throat, cheeks and temples, neck, and between the wings,
deep black : bread, belly, and vent, deep chefnut: rump and
tail the fame : the wings reach beyond the middle of the tail j
the middle of the quills, from the third to the tenth, is white,
forming a fpot acrofs them : feathers round the knee, or garter,
black : legs and claws black.
The female has a paler rump and tail than the male ; the tips
of the outer feathers, and the whole of the two middle ones, are
brown: the reft of the bird cinereous, deepeft above, with a mixture
of rufous on the belly.
This, fays the author, inhabits the gravelly hollows of the Gau-
caftan torrents the whole fummer: is migratory, going more
fouth in winter, in fearch of food : runs on the banks of rivers ;
is reftlefs, but not fearful j often moving the ta il; and fits at
times on the low fhrubs.
It makes the neft between the branches of the Sea-buckthorn j
ofthe berries of which it is very fond.
Mot'acilla erithacus, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 335. N° 35.—Faun. Suee. 258.
Le Rouge-queue a Collier, Brif. orn. iii. p. 411. N° 18. (the male.)— Êuf.
ATr
oif. v. p. 180.
Le Rouge-queue, Brif. orn. iii. p. 409. N° 17. (the female.)
Rothfchwentzel, Rail Syn. p. 78. A. 5. 2.—Will, orn. p. 218. ch. 7. z.—
Frifch. t. 20.
Trifle bigger than the Redftart. Bill blackifh : top of the
head, hind part of the neck and back, fcapulars, and letter
wing coverts, grey; rump and tail rufous; throat, and from
thence to the vent, whitifh grey, irregularly mixed with pale
rufous: fides, under wing and tail coverts, of the laft colour;
greater wing coverts, and quills, grey brown, edged with rufous
: tail wholly rufous, and a trifle forked : legs black.
The male differs from the former, which is the female, chiefly
in having a large brown mark on the fore part of the neck,- in the
fhape of a horfelhoe, the concave part uppermoft : a fmall brown
fpot between the bill and e y e t h e two middle tail feathers
brown; the reft rufoüs’; I place this here as th tmdle, oh-the'
authority of Buffon.
Thefe inhabit the continent of Europe, and are migratory ;
arrive in Burgundy and Lorrain in May, and.depart in October:
frequent the woods, netting in the low bufhes, near the ground.
The neft is compofed of mofs without, and wool and feathers
within. The eggs five or fix in number; white, mixed with
grey* They may be found in the Ikirts of the wood,, which they
frequent morning and evening, to feek the worms, flies, and
the like, on which they feed. It has fearce, any fong, only a
fingle note, like the word fuit, and wags the tail like the Red-
Jlart.
14- RED-TAIL.
D escription.
Female*
Male.
P lace and
Manners.