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rump : cheeks and under parts greenifh yellow : leffer wing 

 coverts deep brown ; the others the fame, tipped with white, 

 forming two bars on the wing : quills and tail blackiftj, with 

 the edges yellow : legs blackifh. 

 Inhabits Bengal. 



Place. 



Motacilla maderafpatana, Lin. Syji. i. p. 334. N° 28. 



Le petit Figuier de Madagascar, Brif. ern. iii. p. 498. N° 54. pi. 28. f. 2. 



Le Cheric, Buf. oif. v. p. 279. 



CIZE of the Yellow Wren : length fcarcely three inches 

 three quarters. The bill is grey brown : round the eyes 

 white : the head, and upper parts, olive green : throat and 

 vent yellow -, the parts between whitifti : quills pale brown, 

 margined with olive : two middle tail feathers olive green -, the 

 others brown, edged with olive : legs cinereous. 



Found at Madras, Madagajcar> and the IJle of France. It is 

 a bold bird, though not often found near the inhabited parts ; 

 it flies in flocks, and feeds on infects. At Madagascar it is 

 called Tcheric -, at the IJle- of France, White-Eyes. 



91. 

 WHITE-EYED 



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'LACE. 



Le Figuier de L'Ifle de Bourbon, Brif. em. iii. p. 510. N° 60. pi. 28. f. 3.— 



PI. enl. 705. N° 2. 

 Le petit Simon, Buf. oif. v. p. 280. 



g I Z E of the laft. Bill, and upper parts, grey brown • beneatl 



dirty yellowifh grey : quills and tail brown, edged with 

 grey brown : legs of the laft colour. 



Inhabits the Iflands of Madagafcar and Bourbon-, at the laft is 

 called Petit Simon. It makes the neft in September, and gene- 



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92. 

 BOURBON W. 



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