Class 11. W H E A T - E A R. 3^3 



difficulty : it is from this covert that it emits its 

 note, which fo much refembles the infed, from 

 which it derives its name, as generally to be mif- 

 taken for it. In the height of fummer it chirps the 

 whole night : its fibilous note is obferved to ceafe 

 about the latter end of ^uly. 



The bill is very Ilender, of a dulky color : the 

 head, and whole upper part of the body is of a 

 greenifh brown, fpotted with black : the quil-fea- 

 thers dulky, edged with an olive brown : the tail 

 is very long, compofed of twelve fliarp pointed 

 feathers s the two middlemod are the longed, the 

 others on each fide grow gradually fhorter. The 

 under fide of the body is of a dull yellovvifli white, 

 darkeft about the breaft : the legs are of a dirty 

 white : the hind claw Ihorter, and more crooked, 

 than is ufual in the lark kind. 



* * With party colored Tails. 



Belonar..y,^, Moteux Vitiflora. Bryi ,57.Wheat. 



Oenanthe. Gefner a^o, Gzc^. Jun a-v. \\\. \\9' ear. 



Aldr a-v. II. 33;J. ^^'^ bianco, Fornarola, Pe- 



Wheat-ear , * Failosv-fmich, tragnola Zinan 41. 



White-tail. Wil. orn. 233. Nor-vegis, Stceiidolp, Steen 



Raii fyn, a.. 75- Squette Steengylpe. Brun- 



Motacilla oenanthe. Im. mch.z-jb. „.^.,„^^ 



rn Steinfchwaker, Steinfchnap- 



Stenfquetta.' Faun, Suec. fp, perl. iTr^^/. 374- 



2-. Bella. Scopoh, No. 230. 



Le Cul blanc, Vitrec, ou Br. ZooL 102. plate S. i. f. 



5. 6. 



THE wheat-ear begins to vifit us about the 

 middle of March^ and continues coming till , 

 C c 4 ^^^ 



