52 WARBLER. 



to be well flavoured, and equal to that of the Ortolan. The song is 

 a short warble, having an elongated note at the end, but although 

 monotonous, is not unpleasing ; and it is observed frequently to utter 

 this while suspended in the air on the wing. 



I have seen two Varieties, one with the belly much variegated 

 with white ; the other with a considerable portion of pale grey on 

 the upper parts, and the tail feathers tipped with the same. 



45.— WHEAT-EAR WARBLER. 



Sylvia Oenantbe, Ind. Orn.W. 529. Scop. s'. 156. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 135. 

 Saxicola Oenanthe, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 237. 



Motacilla Oenanthe, Lin. i. 332. Faun. suec. No. 254. Gm. Lin. i. 966. Brun. No. 

 276. Muller, No. 274. Kramer, p. 374. 4. Faun. Groenl. 122. Sepp, Vog. t. 

 p. 163. Raii, 75. A. 1. Will. 168. t. 41. Borowsk.m. 192. Lin. Trans. x\\. 



p. 532. 

 Vitiflora, Brij. iii. 449. Id. 8vo. i. 434. Klein, 78. Gerin. iv. t. 383. 384. 1. 

 Culo bianco, Zinnan. Uov. 41. t. 6. f. 24. Cett. Uc. Sard. 223. 

 Der Weiss schwanz, Naturf. xvii. 103. 

 Cul-blanc, Vitrec, ou Motteux, Buf.v. 237. PL enl. 554. 1. 2. Hist. Prov.'u 498. 



Voy. en Barb. i. 273. 

 Steinschmazer, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 26. f. 1. 

 Wheat-ear, Gen. Syn. iv. 465. Id. Sup. 182. Br. ZoolA. No. 157. Id.fol. 102. t. 



s. 1. f. 5. 6. Id. Ed. 1812. i. 521. Collinses Birds, pi. 6. f. 1. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. 



420. P. Will. Engl. 133. pi. 41. Albin, i. pi. 55— male, 54— female. Edw. 



Birds, pre/, p. 12. Shaw's Zool. x. 565. Bewick's Birds, i. pi. in p. 229. 



Lewin's Birds, iii. pi. 110. Walcot, Birds, ii. pi. 241. Pult. Dorset, p. 9. 



Om. Diet. § Supp. Graves's Br. Orn. V. iii. Id. Eggs, pt. 1. 



LENGTH five inches and a half, breadth nine inches and three 

 quarters ; weight six drachms and a half. Bill black, rather broad 

 at the base, and furnished with a few hairs ; irides hazel ; crown of 

 the head, hind part of the neck, and back, bluish grey; over the eye 

 a white streak ; through the eye another of black, which grows much 

 wider behind it; quills bJack, edged with tawny; the rump, upper 

 tail coverts, and base of the tail, white ; the end half black ; body 



