﻿432 WARBLER, 



2* Motacilla fkedula, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 330. N° 10.— Faux. Suec. 251. — MuVtf, 



EPICUREAN W. p. 33. N' J zfi.—Tri/cb. t. 22. (the male.) 



LeBecfigue, Brif. orn. iii. p. 369. N° 1. — .So/", oi/.v. p. 187. — Pl.enl. 658. 1. 

 Beccafico, 0//«. »r. p. u.— Ruff. Akp. p. 64. — £<k? 6>«. 81. N° 12. — /F/7/. 

 era. p. 227. 



Description, HP H I S is a fmall bird, much lefs than our Cinereous Flycatcher : 

 length five inches. Bill blackifli : the upper parts are grey 

 brown : round the eye rufous white : under parts greyifh white, 

 with a tinge of brown on the bread : Jeffer wing coverts grey 

 brown ; the greater cinereous browni tipped with white, form- 

 ing a band acrofs the wing; quills cinereous brown, edged with 

 greyifh brown, but the three neareft the body with white : tail 

 dufky, edged with grey brown ; the outer feather white the 

 whole way on the outer web, and the neck the fame for two- 

 thirds of its length : legs blackifh. 

 Female. The female is much paler than the male. 



Place and This is a bird much efteemed on the continent for the delicate 



Manners. flavour of its flefh. Is not found in England, but met with in 

 moft of the intermediate parts between Sweden and Greece ; yet 

 it is only a fummer-inhabitant in any of them, probably retiring 

 ftill more fouth at the approach of winter. In the ifle of Cyprus 

 and Candy they abound greatly, infomuch as to be an article of 

 commerce * ; and the Italians are as fond of them at this day s as 

 their forefathers were of old. 



* " They are falted up in great numbers, and rranfported into other coun- 

 *.' tries." — Willughby. Perhaps he means potted, like our Wheat-eats. They 

 alfo tranfport them in veflels filled with vinegar and fweet herbs ; and the Me 

 oF Cyprus alone collefts 1,000 or 1,200 of thefe pots every year. See Dapper 

 Defc. des IJks d'Arcbip. p. 51. 



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