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It chiefly frequents heaths ; but except in particular fpots, as 

 before mentioned, one only fees here and there a few fcattered 

 pairs. The neft is ufually placed under fhelter of fome turf, 

 clod, ftone, or the like, always on the ground, and not unfre- 

 quently in fome deferted rabbit-burrow. It is compofed of dry 

 grafs or mofs, mixed with wool, fur of the rabbit, &c. or lined 

 with hair and feathers. The eggs are from five to eight in 

 number, of a light blue, with a deeper blue circle at the large 

 end *. The young are hatched the middle of May. 



Motacilla cenanthe, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 333. N° 15.5. 75 • ' 



Le Cul-blanc gris, Brif. orn. iii. p. 452. N° 34. pi. 21. f. z.—Buf. oif. v. Var ' A# 



p. 244. 

 Grey Wheat-Ear, Br. Zool. App. f 



HP HI S variety differs in having a mixture of whitifh and ful- Descriptio.it. 



vous on the upper parts, and very fmall grey fpots on the 

 lower part of the neck : and the two middle tail feathers wholly 

 black; the others as in the common Wheat-Ear, and fringed 

 with pale rufous ; bill and legs brown. 



* Hijl.desoif. 



t In Mr. Pennant's bird, which was fliot near Uxbridgt, the upper parts 

 were tawny: fore part of the neck dull brownifh yellow: from the bill to the 

 eye an obfcure duflty line : quills and fecondaries black, edged with tawny and 

 white : tail like the common Wheat-Ear, with pale tawny edges. 



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