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ORD. III. GEN. XL WARBLER. 



SPE. XIII. STONE CHAT. 



PI. no. 



Motacilla rubicola. Lin. Syfi. I. p. 332. 

 Le Traquei. - , Brif. Orn. III. p. 428. 



The length of this bird is four inches and three quarters. The bill is black : 

 the head, neck, and throat, are alfo black ; but on each fide of the neck is a 

 crofs bar of white appearing at a diftance like a collar : the feathers on the 

 back are black, with tawny edges : the rump is white : the vent whitifh : the 

 breaft of a reddifh yellow : the belly of the fame colour, but much paler : the 

 end and outer web of each of the extreme feathers of the tail are of a light ruft 

 colour, all the others are black : on the wing is a fpot of white : the legs are 

 black. 



The female is not unlike the male in the general colouring, but is much 

 paler ; the white on the rump is wanting •, and the head is not black, but of the 

 colour of the reft of the upper parts. 



This is a reftlefs noify bird, and perches frequently on fome bum, chattering 

 inceffantly. It frequents our heaths, and remains with us the whole year. It 

 makes its neft in a low bufh, and fometimes under the fhelter of a ftone. The 

 eggs are five or fix in number : for which fee PI. XXV. Fig. 2. 



