Song. 
Nest, &c. 
Food. 
Locality. 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
202 PASSERES. SAXICOLA. Wuin-Cuat. 
met with single or in pairs. It haunts open moorlands and 
commons, particularly those overrun with furze (whence comes 
its trivial name), or low brush-wood, and is rarely seen to 
alight on any but the uppermost spray of a bush.—It utters 
a pleasing, though hasty, song, either perched, or occasional- 
ly suspended an wing over the furze.—Its nest is placed up- 
on the ground, amongst the grass, or in some low bush, most 
artfully concealed, and indeed only to be found by a very di- 
ligent search; as the bird does not enter immediately from 
above, but by a long and winding path made through the 
adjoining herbage. The nest is formed of dried grasses, with 
some moss intermixed, and lined with grass of a finer tex- 
ture. The eggs, generally six in number, are of a fine green- 
ish-blue colour, without spot cr stain.—Worms and insects 
taken on the ground are the common food of this bird, but 
it also makes occasional short flights in pursuit of winged in- 
sects, returning, like the Flycatcher, repeatedly to the same 
spot. 
According to Monracu, it is plentiful throughout Eng- 
land, except in Devonshire and Cornwall, where it is of rare 
occurrence. I have traced it pretty far into Scotland ; but 
its polar migration does not extend so far as that of the Wheat- 
Far, the bird not being enumerated in the Fauna Orcadensis 
of Low. 
Pirate 48. Fig. 2. A male bird, natural size. 
From the base of the bill, and over the eyes, passes a white 
streak or band, reaching to the nape of theneck. Cheeks 
and ear-coveris dark-brown, or brownish-black. Chin 
and streak along the side of the neck pure white. Crown 
of the head, back, and wing-coverts brownish-black ; 
each feather being bordered with ochre-yellow. Rump 
yellowish-brown, streaked with blackish-brown. Base 
of the primary quills white. Base of the tail white ; 
the two middle feathers black. Throat and breast pale 
orange-brown. Belly and vent white, tinged with yel- 
low. Legs and toes black. 
