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Motacilla erithacus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 335. N°35. — Faun. Suec. 258. 14. 



Le Rouge-queue a Collier, Brif. orn. iii. p. 411. N° 18. (the male.)— Buf. RED-TAIL. 



oif. v. p. 180. 

 Le Rouge-queue, Brif. orn. iii. p. 409. N° 17. (the female.) 

 Rothfchwentzel, Rail Syn. p. 78. A. 5. 2. — Will. orn. p. 21S. ch. 7. 2.— 



Frifch. t. zo. 



A" 



Trifle bigger than the Redftart. Bill blackiih : top of the Description, 

 head, hind part of the neck and back, fcapulars, and leffer Female. 



wino- coverts, grey : rump and tail rufous : throat, and from 

 thence to the vent, whitifh grey, irregularly mixed with pale 

 rufous : fides, under wing and tail coverts, of the laft colour : 

 greater wing coverts, and quills, grey brown, edged with ru- 

 fous : tail wholly rufous, and a trifle forked : legs black. 



The male differs from the former, which is the female, chiefly Male. 



in having a large brown mark on the fore part of the neck, in the 

 fiiape of a horfefhoe, the concave part uppermoft : a fmall brown 

 fpot between the bill and eye : the two middle tail feathers 

 brown ; the reft rufous. I place this here as the male, on the 

 authority of Buff on. 



Thefe inhabit the continent of Europe, and are migratory : Place anb 

 arrive in Burgundy and Lor rain in May, and depart in OElober : Manners. 

 frequent the woods, nefting in. the low bufhes, near the ground. 

 The neft is compofed of mofs without, and wool and feathers 

 within. The eggs five or fix in number, white, mixed wich 

 grey. They may be found in the fkirts of the wood, which they 

 frequent morning and evening, to feek the worms, flies, and 

 the like, on which they feed. It has fcarce any fong, only a 

 fingle note, like the word fuil, and wags the tail like the Red- 

 Jiart. 



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