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the black and white in the caudal feathers. The tail of these 
birds is continually flirted up and down. 
% Wheat-Ear.—Saxicola Ginanthe, Bechst. 
PLATE 48. Fig. 1. 
Saxicola GEnanthe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 
Sylvia Ginanthe, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 529. 79. 
Motacilla Gnanthe, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 332. 15.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 966. sp. 15. 
Retz. Linn. Fau. Suec. p. 259. sp. 242.—Raii, Syn. p. 75. A. 1.—Will. 
p. 168. t. 41. 
Vittaflora, Briss. 3. p. 449. 33. 
Le Moteux ou Vitrec, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 237.—Id. Pl. Enl. 554. f. 1. 2. 
Traquet Moteux, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 237. 
Grauriickiger, Steinschmatzer, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 251. B. 
Wheat-Ear, Fallow Smich, or White Tail, Br. Zool. 4. No. 157.—Arct. 
Zool. 2. p. 420. P.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 465. 95.—IJd. Sup. p. 182.—Lewin’s 
Br. Birds, 3. t. 110.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Wiil. (Ang.) p. 133. t. 41.— 
Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 9.—Wailc. Syn. 2. t. 241.—Low’s Fau. Orcad. p. 72. 
White Rump, Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 329. male. 
The Wheat-Ear, which is the largest of the British mem- Periodical 
bers of this genus, is migratory. It is among the earliest of en 
our residents during the summer, generally appearing about 
the middle of March, and is also one of the latest in retiring 
to a warmer climate. 
Its polar migration extends, in our direction, as far as the 
‘Orkneys, the bird bemg enumerated in Low’s Fauna of those 
islands. It is rather numerously distributed through all the 
open districts of the kingdom, particularly on the Downs of 
Sussex and Dorsetshire, and on the dry sand-banks that edge 
various parts of our coasts. In this latter locality, it builds in 
the rabbit burrows that so generally oceur.—Upon moors and Nest, &c. 
downs it makes its nest under large stones, in old quarries, 
or in the interstices of dry walls. This is composed of moss 
and grass, intermixed with wool, and lined with the last men- 
tioned material, or rather (if it can be obtained) with hair. 
The eggs, five or six in number, are of a pure bluish-green 
colour.— The Wheat-Ear is a bird of handsome form, but of 
very wild and timid nature. Upon its first arrival, and also 
