THE FURZE-CHATS. 299 



Fruiicicola rubetra, Macg., Br. B., ii., p. 273 (1839). 

 Saxicola jtcbetra, Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 344 (1873). 

 Pratincola rube/ra, Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p. 255, pis. 37, 3S 



(1873); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., iv., p. 179 (1879); 



Seeb., Br. B., i., p. 312 (1883) ; B. O. U. List Br. B., p. 7 



(1883) \ Lilford, Col. Fig., Br, B., pt. ii. (1886); Saunders, 



Man., p. 27 (ii 



Adult Male. — General colour above brown, streaked with 

 blackish-brown centres to the feathers ; the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts rather more rufous, the latter with white margins ; 

 scapulars like the back, but with a blackish sboulder-spot on 

 the sides of the mantle ; wing-coverts blackish, with sandy- 

 brown edges, the inner, median, and greater coverts white, with 

 dusky brown ends, forming a wing-patch ; primary-coverts 

 white at base, with blackish tips, forming a speculum ; quills 

 dark brown, the primaries white at the extreme base, the 

 secondaries fringed with whity-brown at the ends ; centre tail- 

 feathers brown, the remainder white, with the terminal third 

 brown, forming a broad band ; crown of head darker than the 

 back, the feathers edged with sandy-buff; a broad white eye- 

 brow, commencing at the nostrils ; lores and sides of face 

 blackish, the ear-coverts bronzy-brown; cheeks and chin white, 

 extending on to the sides of the neck; centre of the throat 

 and breast light cinnamon-rufous, as also the sides of the body; 

 centre of breast and abdomen, and under tail-coverts, light 

 sandy-buff; axillaries light cinnamon, with dusky bases ; under 

 wing-coverts dusky brown, with whitish edges ; quills dusky 

 below, ashy-whitish along the inner web; bill and feet black; 

 iris brown. Total length, 5*4 inches; culmen, 0-5; wing, 

 3*05 ; tail, 1 "8 ; tarsus, o-8. 



Adult Female. — Different from the male, and rather browner ; 

 the rufous of the throat and sides of the body paler and more 

 orange ; the sides of the face not so black, the ear-coverts and 

 cheeks being brown, streaked with lighter brown, with a little 

 blackish along the cheeks. Total length, 5 inches; wing, 3*0. 



Young Birds after the Autumn Moult much resemble the old 

 birds, but may always be distinguished by the pale sandy-buff 

 tips to the feathers, traces of which remain till the succeeding 



