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brown, and all the others tipped with brown, except the outer 

 one, which is wholly orange : legs brown. 

 Place. Inhabits Gibraltar. 



13- Motacilla erythro^nilra, _A r . C. Tetr. vol. xix. p. ±6g. N" 4. t. 16. 17. Aw. 



Description. Q I Z E of a Wheat-ear : length feven inches. Bill black : eyes 

 brown : crown and nape dirty footy white : round the bill, 

 the throat, cheeks and temples, neck, and between the wings, 

 deep black : breaft, belly, and vent, deep chefnut : rump and 

 tail the fame : the wings reach beyond the middle cf the tail ; 

 the middle of the quills, from the third to the tenth, is white, 

 forming a fpot acrofs them : feathers round the knee, or garter, 

 black : legs and claws black. 

 Female; The female has a paler rump and tail than the male ; the tips 



of the outer feathers, and the whole of the two middle ones, are 

 brown : the reft of the bird cinereous, deepeft above, with a mix- 

 ture of rufous on the belly. 



Place and This, fays the author, inhabits the gravelly hollows of the Can- 



Manners. - 1 1 1 -" V- ■ • 



cafian torrents the whole iummer : is migratory, going more 



fouth in winter, in fearch of food : runs on the banks of rivers ; 



is reftlefs, but not fearful ; often moving the tail ; and fits at 



times on the low fhrubs. 



It makes the neft between the branches of the Sea-buckthorn ; 



of the berries of which it is very fond. 



Motacilla 



