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FLAXEN W.
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Place*
under grey, with a reddifh tin&ure on the fides: quills and tail
darker than the reft; and the laft pretty long, and even at the
end: legs yellow.
Figuier blond du Sénégal, PI. nl. 584. f. 2.
— — à ventre gris du Sénégal, PI. enl. 584. f. 3.
g I Z E much lefs than the laft : length four inches three quarters.
Bill dufky : the colour much the fame as in that
bird, but feems to be paler on the rump : the tail is cuneiform
and not fo long in proportion : fides of the body very lightly
tinged with red.
In fig. 3- the fize and colour likewife correfponds, but the
under parts are grey inftead of white : the tail is likewife cuneiform,
and the under part of it grey : the legs yellow in
both.
Buffon* thinks that the three laft are the fame fpecies; which I
would not venture to deny, were the fize the only difference ;
but the Jhape of the tails not being the fame, is an infuperable
obje&ion, in my opinion. As to the two laft, I really think them
to be fexual differences, or varieties of the fame bird.
Thefe all inhabit Senegal.
# Hiß% des oif. y, p, 284.
m
Motacilla petechia, Lin. Syß. i. p. 334. N° 30.
Le Figuier à tête rouge de Penfilvanie, Brif. orn. iii. p, 488. N° 49.—
Buf. oif. v. p. 286.
Yellow Redpole, Edw. pl. 256*
Red-headed Warbler, Arft. Z00L
g I Z E of the Black-caß. Bill black : the crown of the head
red: the upper parts of the body olive green; the under,
bright yellow, fpotted with red on the breaft and belly : wings
and- tail d'ufky, edged with yellow : legs dulky.
The female differs in being paler in colour.
Thefe are migratory birds, but folitary. Arrive in Penjylvania
in March, but do not build there. Frequent fhrubs : feldom
perch on tall trees : and feed on infedts.
Le Figuier de St. Domihgue, Brif. ont. iii. p. 494, N° 5*. pl, 26. f. 5.
Figuier à gorge-blanche, Buf. oif. v. p. 287.
O I Z E of the Petti chaps, and almoft five inches in length.
Bill horn-colour : the upper parts of the body are olive green :
fides of the head, and all beneath,, pale yellow ; but the fore part
of the neck and breaft are dirty yellowilh white, marked with
longitudinal reddifh fpots : quills and tail brown, edged with
greenifh yellow : the fide tail feathers are yellowifh on the inner
webs : legs grey brown.
The female is of a greenifh alh-colour, inftead of olive, on the
hind part of the neck.
Inhabits Saint Domingo,
99* RED-HEADED
W.
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Female..
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100.
ST. DOMINGO-
W.
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Female»
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