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black throat, and some white on the sides of the neck, on the wing, 

 and on the rump. It is constantly Hitting about the bushes, and its 

 weak note resemblse the tick-tack of a mill, whence its name. 



Mot.ruhetra; Le Tarier, Enl. ib. 2; Naum. 89, 3, 4. Closely 

 resembles the preceding; but the black is on the cheek instead of 

 being under the throat. It is somewhat larger, and keeps more on 

 the ground. 



Mot.cenanthe; Le Motteux, or cul-blauc, ^n\. 554 ; Naum. 89, 1, 2. 

 (The Wheat-Ear). The rump, and the half of the lateral tail feathers, 

 white. The male is ash coloured above, reddish-white beneath ; the 

 wing, and a band over the eye, black. In the female, all is brown- 

 ish above, and reddish beneath. It is found in the ploughed fields, 

 where it feeds on the worms turned up with the furrow. 

 AVe should distinguish from them, 



Saxieola strapaslna, T. ; M. roux, BufF. ; Naum. 90, 1, 2. A 

 species from the south of Europe that sometimes visits France. 

 There is a bird in the south of France that should be placed near 

 this species, which is black, the rump, and the two superior thirds 

 of the tail, white, and which has been referred to the Thrushes. It 

 is the Turdus lencurus. Lath., Synops. II. pi. 38*; or the Saxieola 

 cachinnans, Tem. 



Sylvia f. Wolf and Meyer. — Ficedula, Bechst. 

 The bill a very little narrower at the base than in the preceding. They 

 are solitary birds, generally building in holes, and feeding on insects, worms, 

 and berries. There are four species in France. 



Mot. ruhecula, L. ; Rouge-fforc/e, Enl. 3G1, 1; Naum. 75, 1, 2. 

 (The Stonechat). A brown-grey above; throat and breast red; 

 belly white; builds near the ground in the woods, is prying and 

 familiar. Some of them remain during the winter, and seek for 

 refuge from the extreme cold in houses, where they soon become 

 tamed. 



Mot. succica, L. ; Gorge-hleue, Enl. 3G1, 2; Naum. 75, 3, 4, 5. 

 Brown above, blue throat, red breast, white belly; rarer than the 

 preceding; builds on the edge of woods and marshes. 



Mot. phoenicurus, h.; Rossignol de muraille, Enl. 351; Naum. 



* Add to the Saxicolae, Mot. capatra, Enl. 235; — M. fulicata, Enl. 1S5, 1; — M. 

 jMlippensis, Ib. 2; — i\\e patre, Vaill. Afr. p. 180. 



And to the Wheat-ear, M. leucothoa, Enl. 583, 2;— the imitateur, Vaill., Afr. 181, 

 Id.; — the familier, Id. 183; — the montagnard, Id. \M;--i\iQ fourmillier, 186; — Mot. 

 leucomela, Falc. Voy. Ill, xxx, and Col. 257, 3. Add, Saxic. aurita, t.. Col. 257, 1 ; 

 — S. monacha, Col. 359, 1 ;— 5. deserti, lb. 2 



The Mot. cyanea, Gm., Lath., Syn. II. pi. liii. has the bill of a Saxieola, and only 

 differs from it in having a rather longer tail. Vieill. Gal. 163, has placed it in his 

 genus Mekion or Malurus, afterwards converted into a receptacle for all kinds of 

 birds with elongated and cuneiform tails, such as the Merion bride, Tem. Col. 385, 

 which is a Thrush ; — the M. natti: and the M. leucoptere, Quoy and Gaym. Voy. de 

 Freycin. pi. 23, which approach the CWy; \.\\e flfiteur oi Vaill". (M. africmia), Afr. 

 112, which is closely allied to the Si/nalla.ies, &c. 



t liubiette, name of the Red-throat in some provinces of France. 



