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SIBIRVAN W; Motacilla montanella, PaU.Trav.iii.p.6g;. N° 12.
D escription. j^ T rifle bigger than the Whin-Chat. Crown of the head brown
black : over the eyes a yellowilh ftreak : chin of the fame
colour, though in fome birds both are white : ears black, placed
in a bed of grey: back teftaceous, fpotted with brown : beneath,
the colour of pale yellow oker : the feathers on the throat brown
V at the bafe : wings brown the quills edged with grey, and the
fecondaries with white : tail longilh, of a pale alh-colour; the
two middle feathers, and the outer one, fhorter than the others.
Place* This comes into Dauria in February, together with the flocks
of Hawfinches.
Jill SENEGAL W.
Motacilla Senegalenfis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 333. 22.
Le Traquet du Senegal, Brif. orn. iii, p. 441. 29.
D escription. J ^ E N G T H five inches and a quarter. Bill brown : general
colour of the plumage the fame : quills rufous, edged with
brown : tail black; all but the two middle feathers tipped with
white.
Place. Inhabits Senegal. One of thefe is in the pofleffion of Ch. Bod-
dam, Efq; which, I think, he faid came from the Cape of Good
Hope. It is full fix inches in length.
s*. LEUCOMELE
W.
Motacilla pleichanka, ,N. Com. Petr. xiv. p. 503. t. 14. f*. 2. (Lepechin,)
Motacilla leucomela, N. Com. Petr. xiv. p. 584. t. 22. f. 3. (Pallas J
D escription. S t z E a trifle bigger than a kedftart: length fix inches two
lines. Bill dulky : irides the fame : the forehead, crown, nape,
lower
jower part of the breaft, the belly, rump, and greateft part of
the tail, are white: the other parts black : the tail has the two
middle feathers black j the others white, with' a broad band of
black at the end : claws black.
The female has the upper parts dulky or cinereous brown ;
head and neck paleft : beneath inclining to alh-colour: throat,
and fore part of the neck, cinereous grey : above the eye a
white ftreak : the tail as in the male.
Female.
This fpecies inhabits the craggy cavernous places about Saratov>,
and other parts of the Volga; where, like the Sand Martin,
it makes holes in the banks wherein to place the neft: thefe
holes are horizontal, deep, and the neft compofed of dry ftalks,
&c. The young are ten in number.
It is a bold bird; comes near the villages, and fits on the
ftones and flumps of trees, twittering almoft like a Swallow.
Suppofed to feed on worms and beetles, as the remains of the
laft have been found in the ftomach on difleftion.
Place and
Manners.
Mulcicapa melanoleuca, N. Com. Petr. vol. xix. p. 468.. t. 13. (J . Guel-
denjiaedt.)
£9*
BLACK-AND-
WHITE W.
J^TOT unlike the laft, but the bill a trifle bent at the tip : that
and the irides are black : the whole of the back is white •,
and the tail feathers all white, except at the tips; about one-
third of the ends of the two middle ones are black, from thence
the black decreafes as the feathers are more outward : the thighs
annulated brown and white.
D escription.
The female is brown and dirty alh-colour, where the malt is
pure black and white.
V ol. II. 3 N This
F emale*
This