Clafs IT. 



HEAT-EAR. 



7.69 



XI. The WHEAT- EAR. 



Belon a<v. 352. 

 Oenanthe. Gefner a-v. 629. 

 Mdr. a<v. ii. 332. 

 Wheat-ear,Fallovv-fmich,White- 



tail. Wil. orn. 233. 

 Raiijyfi. a<v. 75. 

 -Moracilla oenanthe. Lin. fyfi. 



332. 

 Stenfquetta. Faun. Suec./p. 254. 

 Le Cul blanc, Vitre, on Moteux, 



Vitiflora. BriJJon a<v. iii. 449. 

 Kulo bianco, Fomarola, Petrag- 



nola. 7Anan. 41. 

 Nornjegis Steendolp, Steen Sqnet- 



te. Steengylpe. Brunnich 276. 

 Steinfchwaker, Sceinfchnapperl. 



Kram. 374. 

 Br. Zool. ,102. plate S. 1. £ 



£. 6. 



THE wheat-ear begins to vifit us about the mid- 

 dle of March, and continues coming till the 

 beginning of May : we have obferved that the females 

 arrive about a fortnight before the male. They fre- 

 quent warrens, downs, and the edges of hills, efpe- 

 cially thofe that are fenced with ftone walls. They 

 breed in the latter, in old rabbet borroughs, cliffs, and 

 frequently under old timber: their neft is made of 

 dried grais and horfe hair-, and they lay from fix to 

 eight eggs, of a light blue color. They grow very fat 

 in autumn, and are efteemed a delicacy. About 

 Majibourn in SuJJex they are taken by the fhepherds in 

 great numbers, in fnares made of horfe hair, placed 

 under a long turf ; being very timid birds, the mo- 

 tion of a cloud, or the appearance of a hawk will 

 .drive them for fheker into thole traps, and fo they 

 &re taken. The numbers annually enfnared in that 

 :di{tri& alone, amount to about 1840 dozen, which 

 fell ufual.ly at fix -pence per dozen j and what appears 



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