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FRUTICICOLA RUBICOLA. THE BLACK-HEADED 

 BUSHCHAT. 



STONECHAT. STONESMICH. STONECH.VTTER. BL.\CKY-TOP. SNAC. 



Motacilla Rubicola. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 



Sylvia Rubicola. Lath. Ind. Oru. II. 523. 



Stonechat. Mont. Oin, Diet. 



Traquet patre. Saxicola rubicola. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 24(). 



Traquet rubicole. Saxicola rubicola. Temm. III. 168. 



Stone-Chat. Sasicola Rubicola. Selb. lUustr. I. 185. 



Saxicola Rubicola. Stone-Chat. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 121. 



Male with the head and throat black, the breast brownish-red, 

 the sides of the neck, a spot on the icings, and the basal part of 

 the upper tail-coverts, white, the upper parts brownish-black, the 

 feathers edged with brownish-red. Female with the head and 

 xipper parts streaked ifith brownish-black and brownish-red, the 

 throat yellow ish-greg, the breast dull brownish-red, a white spot 

 on the wings, and the upper tail-coverts yellowish-red. Young 

 xcitli the upper parts dusky, streaked with pale yellowish-red, the 

 lower dull yellowish-brown, the fore-neck mottled ivith dusky, and 

 some of the inner secondary coverts white. 



Male. — This species closelyreserablesthe Whiiichat in form, 

 but has a shorter and fuller appearance, chiefly produced how- 



