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fide the neck a tranfverfe ftreak of white : the breaft of a reddifti 

 yellow : belly paler : vent almoft white : the rump quite white : 

 the outer edges and ends of the two outer tail feathers pale ferru- 

 ginous -, the reft black : the quills dufky, with ferruginous mar- 

 gins ; thofe next the body marked with a white fpot near the 

 bottoms ; and on the wing coverts is another of the fame : the 

 legs are black. 



The female has the colours much lefs vivid : top of the head Femalb. 



like the upper parts, and not black : the fides and throat paleft : 

 the white on the fides of the neck not fo confpicuous, and the 

 breaft and belly much paler : the white fpot on the wings the 

 fame ; but that on the rump wholly wanting. 



This bird inhabits with us dry places, fuch as heaths and com- Place and 

 mons, for the moft part j living on infects of all kinds. 



It makes its neft early, at the foot of fome low bu(h, or under a 

 ftone. 



The eggs five or fix in number, of a blueifh green, fparingly 

 marked with faint rufous fpots. 



It is fo very crafty as not to betray the place of the neft ; never 

 alighting but at fome diftance, and creeping on the ground to it 

 by the greateft fteakh ; fo that the neft is only found by the 

 meereft chance. 



It is a reftlefs bird, inceffantly flying from bufh to bufh. With 

 us it is not migratory * ; but is oftener feen in the moifter places 

 in winter, when the food becomes fcarce in the dry. 



I cannot find it remarked anywhere for its having any fong. 



* Said to depart from the more northern parts of France in September. — ■ 

 Hljl. des oif. 



Vol. II. 3 M Bttffon 



