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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 flitting about the bushes, and its 
weak note resemblse the tick-tack of a mill, whence its name. 
Mot. rubetra; 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. enanthe; Le Motteux, or cul-blanc, Enl.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. 
We should distinguish from them, 
Saxicola strapasina, 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 leucurus, Lath., Synops. II. pl. 38*; or the Saxicola 
cachinnans, 'Tem. 
Sytvia}, Wolf and Meyer.—F¥iceputa, 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. rubecula, L.; Rouge-gorge, Enl. 361, 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, .; Gorge-bleue, En). 361, 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. pheenicurus, L.; Rossignol de muraille, Enl. 351; Naum. 
* Add to the Saxicole, Mot. capatra, Enl. 235;—M. fulicata, Enl. 185, 1;—”. 
philippensis, Ib. 2;—the patre, Vaill. Afr. p. 180. 
And to the Wheat-ear, M/. leucothoa, En]. 583, 2;—the imitateur, Vaill., Afr. 181, 
Id.;—the familier, Id. 183;—the montagnard, Id. 184;--the fourmillier, 186 ;— Mot. 
leucomela, Fale. Voy. III, xxx, and Col. 257,3. Add, Savic. aurita, t., Col. 257, 1; 
—S. monacha, Col. 359, 1;—S. deserti, Ib. 2. 
The Mot. cyanea, Gm., Lath., Syn. II. pl. liii. has the bill of a Saxicola, and only 
differs from it in having a rather longer tail. Vieill. Gal. 163, has placed it in his 
genus Merion or Maturus, afterwards converted into a receptacle for all kinds of 
birds with elongated and cuneiform tails, such as the Mérion bridé, 'Tem. Col. 385, 
which is a Thrush;—the ©, natié and the M. leucoptére, Quoy and Gaym. Voy. de 
Freycin. pl. 23, which approach the Coly; the fldteur of Vaill. (ML. africana), Afr. 
112, which is closely allied to the Synallaxes, &c. 
+ Rubiette, name of the Red-throat in some provinces of France. 
