i8a 



WARBLER. 



7?- 

 WHEAT-EAR. 



Wheat-ear, Gen. Syn. iv. p.465. N" 75. — Jr^. Zoo!, ii. p. 420. F. 

 Motacilla oenanthe, Sepf Vog. pi. in p. 163. 



T^HIS is met with at the Cape of Good Hope*. The birds 

 which we fee in our quarters are probably on their pafTage to 

 the parts where they breed. Are firft met with on our downs and 

 commons in fmal! numbers, about the middle oi April; and after 

 flaying a fortnight or more, depart elfewhere, and are not feen 

 again till their return in Augtiji. I cannot fay that I have obferved 

 them in the fame places on their return more than once or twice in 

 my life, though I have remarked them every year at their coming.; 

 but Mr. Boys informs me, that he has feen them in plenty about 

 Sandwich, on the loth of Auguji. I have been told, that when 

 they breed in the rabbit burrows, a circumftance not unfrequent, 

 the neft is placed fo far therein, as fcarcely to be wlchin the reach 

 of a man's arm t» 



CEYLON W. 



Ceylon Warbler, Gen. Sjn. iv. p. 474. N°8'7. 

 Green Indian Warbler, Ge/i. Sjn. iv. p. 4.74. N° 90.. 



AM informed that thefe two birds differ only in fex. 



104, 

 YELLOW- 

 RUMPED V^. 

 Var. 



DESCRIfTlON. 



Yellow- runiped Warbler, Gsn, Sjn^'iv. p. 481. N" 104. — Jn^. Zool. n. 

 N" 286. 



BIRD fimilar to this, if not the fame, is feen in fummer at 

 Hud/on' s Bay, Length five inches j breadth fix inches and. a 



• Mr. Pmiant, 



t Mr. Green, 



half,^ 



