WHEAT-EAR, STAPAZINA, &c. WARBLER. , 421 



A fpecies which extends from the fultiy climate o{ Bengal* to the Place. 



frozen region of Greenland. Is migratory, at left in the temperate. 

 and frigid zones. .Goes even in fummer as high as beyond the 

 JrSfic circle, in Europe and Jfta, wherever the country is rocky. In 

 Greenland, is converfant among rills of water. Feeds on infefts and 

 worms, efpecially thofe of places of interment ; is therefore detefted 

 by the natives t. Breeds in that country in June. Is found in 

 Iceland and the Feroe iflands. On its firft appearance in Swedeny the 

 peafants expeft to be freed from the fevere nodlurnal frofts j;. Its 

 winter retreat unknown. 



Q_^ Stapazina. 



M. Stapazina, Z7». 5J/?. 331.— Zs/^aw, il. 468. 



Le Motteux, ou Cul blanc roufsatre, De Buffan, v. 454. — Lev. Mus. 



vy With head, neck, and breaft, of a reddifh brown : throat and 

 belly white : acrofs the eyes a brown bar : rump white : tail 

 like that of the former. 



Is frequent, with the preceding, in Rujfia and Sibiria ; and ex- Place. 



tends to Kamtjchatka. Often found in the warmer parts of Europe. 



R, Whin-chat, Br. Zod. i. N" 158. 



Le Tarier, De Buffon, v. 224. — PI. EnU 678. 



M. Rubetra, Faun. Suec. N° 255. — Latham, ii. 245. — Lev. Mus. 



1^7" With head and back of rufty brown, fpotted with black: 

 over each eye a white line ; under that a broad bed of black : 

 breaft reddifh yellow : two middle feathers of the tail black ; the 

 reft white at their bottoms, black at their ends. The Female has 

 on the cheeks a bed of brown inftead of black, and the other colors 

 lefs vivid. 



» Ed-w. Birds, I. Preface, xiL f Faun. Groenl. N° 84. % Amoen, Acad, iv. 597. 



Found 



