﻿Warbler, 



501 



136. 



Le petit Figuier a longue queue de la Chine, Son..Foj. Lid. vol. li. p. 206. LONG-TAILED 



'THE top of the head is pale rufous : hind part of the neck, Description. 



back, rump, wing coverts, and tail, pale olive green : 

 quills olive brown : the tail is long and (lender, compofed of 

 very narrow feathers ; the two middle ones as long as the 

 body. 



This inhabits China, is frequent among the trees with which Place. 



the Chinefe adorn the courts about their houfes, and is very tame. 

 It has an agreeable note. 



Motacilla cyanea, Ellis's Narr. p. 2Z< 

 Ltv. Muf. 



137- 



SUPERB W. 



Pl. LIII. 



'THE length of this beautiful fpecies is five inches and a half. Description. 



The bill black : the feathers of the head are long, and ftand 

 ere£t like a full creft ; from the forehead to the crown they are 

 of a bright blue ; from thence to the nape black like velvet : 

 through the eyes from the bill a line of black : beneath the eye 

 fprings a tuft of the fame blue feathers ; beneath thefe, and on the 

 chin, it is of a deep blue, almoft black, and feeling like velvet : 

 on the ears is another patch of blue, and acrofs the back part of 

 the head a band of the fame* j the whole giving the head a greater 

 appearance of bulk than is natural : the hind part of the neck, 

 and upper parts of the body and tail, deep blue black j the under 

 pure white : wings dufky } fhafts of the quills chefnut : the tail 



* In fome fpecimens, the patches of blue under the eye, and on the ear, 

 unite together, and join with the band at the nape, as in the oppofite plate. 



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