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correct classification tends so strongly to multiply the many 
difficulties that already attend the progress of the ornitholo- 
gical student. 
Piate 48. Fig. 1. A male bird of the natural size. 
From the corners of the mouth a black streak or patch passes ean 
each eye, and cevers the orifices of the ears. Forehead, tion. 
chin, and eye-brows white. Upper parts bluish-grey. 
Wings brownish-black. Lower part of the neck and 
breast pale chesnut-brown. Belly and vent white. Tail 
(except the two middle feathers, which are wholly black) 
white for two-thirds of its length, commencing at the 
base, the remainder black. Legs and toes black. Bill 
black. 
The female bird has the upper parts yellowish-brown, tinged 
with grey; the auricular patch brown; and not so 
much white upon the tail. 
* Whin-Chat.—Saxicola rubetra, Bechst. 
PLATE 48. Fig. 2. 
Saxicola rubetra, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 252. B. 
Sylvia rubetra, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. p. 525. sp. 58. 
Motacilla rubetra, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 332. 16.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 967. sp. 16. 
Rubetra major, Briss. 3. p. 432. 26. t. 24. f. 1. 
Gnanthe secunda, Raii, Syn. p. 76. A. 3.—Will. p. 234. 
Grand Traquet ou Tarier, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 224.—/d. Pl. Enl. 678. f. 2. 
Traquet Tarier, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 244. 
Braunkeliger, Steinschmatzer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 684.—Frisch. 
t. 22. f. 1. B. male. 
Whin-Chat, Br. Zool. 1. No. 158.—Will. (Ang.) p. 234.—Lath. Syn. 4. 
p- 454. 54..-Mont. Ornith. Dict.—~Haye’s Br. Birds, t. 39.—Lewin’s 
Br. Birds, 3. t. 109.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 9.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. 
. p. 231. male. 
This is also a migratory species, but its appearance is con. Periodical 
siderably later than that of the Wheat-Kar, as. it is seldom Meee 
seen in the south of England before the middle of April, or 
in the northern counties till the end of that month. Like the 
two others of its tribe,,it is of shy disposition, and is only 
