206 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBOENE 1772 



Zanius colhirio, woodchat from Tetuan. 



Sturnus niger from Tetuan : an nova species ? 



Oriolus galhula. 



Oriolvs „ young or variety. 



Alauda cristata. 



Alauda No. 1. 2 specimens; bills long and slender; breasts 

 tinged with yellow. 



Alauda No. 2. 2 spec. ; bills short and taper ; back claw 

 small — and short ; tails short and dusky ; outside 

 feathers tinged with yellow. 



Alauda 1 bill slender; back claw short and rather in- 

 curved; breast a little spotted; tail long and dusky; 

 out feathers white ; is it the same with No. 1 ? 



Motacilla No. 1. What? large: back and wings ash- 

 coloured; head dusky; throat, breast, belly white; 

 tail lost an Motacilla dumetorum Linn. Kram. Aust. 

 377:n:19? 



Motacilla No. 2. What? small: head, back dusky-reddish; 

 wings dusky; outer webs chestnut-coloured; throat 

 white ; breast tinged with red ; feet and legs palish. 



Motacilla No. 3. 2 spec; minute; head, back, wings 

 black ; feathers edged with chestnut, resembling the 

 passer torq%iatiis\ throat white, breast, belly, sides 

 tawny ; caudd unicolore ; elegant little birds ? 



In all these difficulties your obliging disposition will 

 prompt you to assist me; and you will besides I hope 

 refer so to numerical remarks as to prevent mistakes or 

 misapprehension. It is very remarkable that of all the 

 larks my Brother has procured he has never yet met with 

 a British species. Has Brisson any larks unknown to Ray ? 

 You will find, I think, in the box two or three distinct 

 and unusual species. My Brother in Thames Street has sent 

 for the last bottles of fishes. Enclosed with the birds are 

 some rough draughts of some fishes taken by my Brother at 

 Gibraltar, who, though he knows nothing of the rules of 



