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Vower part of the breaft, the belly, rump, and greateft part of 

 the tail, are white : the other parts black : the tail has the two 

 middle feathers black ; the others white, with a broad band of 

 black at the end : claws black. 



The female has the upper parts dufky or cinereous brown ; Female. 



head and neck paleft : beneath inclining to alh-colour: throat, 

 and fore part of the neck, cinereous grey : above the eye a 

 white ftreak : the tail as in the male. 



This fpecies inhabits the craggy cavernous places about Sara- p LACE and 

 tow, and other parts of the Volga ; where, like the Sand Martin, Manners. 

 it makes holes in the banks wherein to place the neft : thefe 

 holes are horizontal, deep, and the neft compofed of dry ftalks, 

 &c. The young are ten in number. 



It is a bold bird ; comes near the villages, and fits on the 

 ftones and ftumps of trees, twittering almoft like a Swallow. 

 Suppofed to feed on worms and beetles, as the remains of the 

 laft have been found in the ftomach on diffedlion. 



Mufcicapa melanoleuca, N. Com. Peer. vol. xix. p. 468. t. is. (J. Guel- 59- 



denjlaedt.) BLACK-AND- 



aenjtaeat.j WHITE W. 



OT unlike the laft, but the bill a trifle bent at the tip : that Description, 

 and the irides are black : the whole of the back is white j 

 and the tail feathers all white, except at the tips ; about one- 

 third of the ends of the two middle ones are black, from thence 

 the black decreafes as the feathers are more outward : the thighs 

 annulated brown and white. 



The female is brown and dirty afh-colour, where the male is Female, 

 pure black and white. 

 Vol. II. 3 N This 



