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the neck ; and the two middle tail feathers wholly black ; the others 

 as in the Common Wheat-Ear, and fringed with pale rufous ; bill 

 and legs brown.* 



B. — Vitiflora cinerea, Bm. iii. 454. t.21. f. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 435. 

 Cul-blanc cendre, Buf. iii. 245. Gen. St/n. iv. 468. 



The forehead in this bird is white ; the upper parts of the body 

 ash-colour, irregularly mixed with grey brown ; rump grey brown ; 

 in other things like the last described. 



C. — Scopoli observes another Variety, found about Dwina, which 

 is white on the upper parts ; throat, wings, and nearly the whole of 

 the two middle tail feathers black ; and two black spots on the 

 other feathers of it. 



46.— RUSSET WHEAT-EAR WARBLER. 



Sylvia Stapazina, Ind. Orn. ii. 530. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 137. 

 Saxicola Stapazina, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 239. 

 Motacilla Stapazina, Lin. i. 331. Gm. Lin. i. 966. 

 Vitiflora rufa, Bris. iii. 459. Id. 8vo. i. 436. Klein, 80. 26. 

 Cul-blanc roux, Buf. v. 246. 



Oenanthe altera Aldrovandi, Rail, 76. 2. Will. 168. Id. Engl. 233. 

 Stapazina, Arct. Zool. ii. 241. Q. 



Russet Wheat-Ear, Gen. St/n. iv. 468. Edw. pi. 31. — front figure. Skaw's Zool. 

 x. 569. 



SMALLER than the Common Wheat-Ear ; length six inches 

 and a half, extent eleven ; weight one ounce. Bill black : in the 

 male, the head, neck, back, and breast, are of a faint dirty orange, 



* This bird was shot near Uxbridge, and described with the upper parts tawny, fore part 

 of the neck dull brownish yellow; from the bill to the eye an obcure dusky line; quill* 

 black, edged with tawny and white; tail like the Common Wheat-Ear, with pale tawny 

 edges. 



