﻿45^ WARBLE R. 



Place. This bird is faid to be migratory, and met with the whole 



fummer about Teflis and Cyrus, in Georgia. It feeds on infefts j. 

 frequents the banks of rivers, and is met with among the. 

 fhrubs. 



60. 

 MOOR W. Motacilla maura, Pall. Trail, ii. p. 708. N-" 17. 



Description. O I Z E of the Whin-Chat, to which, it bears fome refemblance. 

 The head and neck black ; edges of the feathers pale : back,, 

 and bafe, of the wings, black, the laft margined with grey : fides 

 of the neck, and all beneath, white : the throat of a deep fer- 

 ruginous : wings brown j on the coverts an oblique patch of yel- 

 lowifh white : tail even, black : the rump, and bafe half of the 

 tail, white. 

 Female. The female, and young birds, have the head grey, clouded' 



with brown: back not unlike that of a Woodcock: the reft of 

 the body more obfolete. 

 Place.. This fpecies inhabits Rujfia, and frequents the birch-trees 



which are here and there fcattered in the woods of Ural, and in 

 the fields planted with them between the rivers Tobol and Irtifcb, 

 flying by pairs. Feeds on infects, and makes the neft in the 

 holes in trunks of trees made by the mice, and other fmall 

 quadrupeds. 



60. 

 Var. A. 



Description. T ENGTH fix inches. Bill black: plumage above rufous 



brown ; beneath rufous white : chin and belly white : over 



each eye a rufous ftreak : edges of the wing coverts rufous : 



quills black, with pale edges 5 fecondaries edged with rufous : 



rump 



