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in the winter *. In France it is feen at all times of the year, 

 except the winter is uncommonly fevere, changing the uplands 

 for the fides of gentle ftreams, when food grows fcarce in the 

 firfh 



It makes the neft in the corn-fields f, on the ground, compofing 

 it of bents and fibres of roots, lining it with hair. The eggs 

 are five in number, varied with dufky fpots and lines, without 

 any order. 



Bergeronette de l'Ifle de Timor, Buf, oif. v. 275. 



"DILL black, rather ftout at the bafe, lefiening towards the 

 point, and a trifle curved : the upper part of the plumage 

 is cinereous grey : beneath yellow : over the eye a line of yel- 

 low : greater wing coverts tipped with white, forming a band 

 acrofs the wing : quills and tail black : legs pale red : the hind 

 claw twice the length of any of the others. 

 Found in the IJle of Timor, in the Eaft Indies. 



6. 



Var. A. 



Timor w. 



Description 



Place. 



Motacilla citreola, Pal!. Tra<v. iii. p. 696. 14. 



YELLOW- 

 HEADED W. 



A Trifle bigger than the Yellow Wagtail, but not unlike it. Description. 



The head, neck, and all beneath, yellow: on the nape is 

 a blackifh crefcent : the back of a blueifh aih-colour: wings 

 and tail like the Yellow Wagtail. 



* Some remain all the year, in Hampjbire. Br. Zool. 



f In holes, under fallen trees and logs. Fri/cb.— Often under the banks of 

 ftreams. Hi/}, de: oif. 



Vol. II. 3 F Very 



