2 ?o WHEAT EAR. Clafs II. 



very extraordinary, the numbers that return the fol- 

 lowing yeai do not appear to be lefTened, as v/e are 

 affured by a very intelligent perfon refident near that 

 place. The reafon that fuch a quantity are taken in. 

 the neighborhood of 'Eajlbpurn is, that it abounds 

 with a certain fiy which frequents the adjacent hills, 

 for the fake of the wild thyme they are covered with, 

 which is noton!y a favorite food of that infect, but 

 the plant on which it depofites its eggs. 

 JDefcr. The head and back of the male are of a light grey 

 tinged with red : over each eye is a white line ; be- 

 neath that is a broad black ftroke, pafiing acrofs each 

 eye to the hind part of the head : the rump and lower 

 half of the tail are white j the upper half black : the 

 under fide of the body is white tinged with yellow •, on 

 the neck it inclines to red : the quil-feathers are black 

 edged with reddifn brown. The colors of the female 

 are more dull : it wants that black ftroke acrofs the 

 eyes, and the bar of white on the tail is narrower,, 

 Thefe birds difappear in Septc?nber. 



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