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from the bill, a broad black patch which extends over the ears ; tail 

 for three-fourths of the length white, the rest black ; but the wings 

 and the two middle tail feathers are black, and the outmost chiefly 

 so; bill and legs black. 



In the female the mark on the ears is only dusky, mixed with 

 rufous ; nape and back rufous brown ; throat dirty white ; breast 

 pale rufous, with some other trifling differences. The males at first 

 much like the females. 



Inhabits the southern parts of Italy as well as the Russet Species. 

 Willughby says near Nismes, and Bologna; common in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Mediterranean Sea; has been usually taken for a 

 Variety of the Russet Wheat-Ear ; but M. Temminck assures us, 

 that it is a distinct species. The description in Brisson is very good, 

 but the tail in his figure seems longer than in nature, approaching 

 to that of the Wagtails. 



48— RUFOUS WHEAT-EAR. 



Sylvia leucorhoa, Ind. Orn. ii. 531. 



Motacilla leucorhoa, Gm. Lin. i. 966. 



Le Motteux du Senegal, Buf. v. 249. 



Cul blanc du Senegal, PI. enl. 583. 2. 



Rufous Wheat-Ear, Gen. Syn. iv. 469. Shaw's Zool. x. 574. pi. 52. 



THIS is bigger than the Common Wheat-Ear; length seven 

 inches. Bill black ; upper parts of the plumage rufous brown ; 

 wing coverts brown, edged with rufous ; quills the same ; the under 

 parts of the body yellowish white, inclining to reddish on the breast ; 

 the rump, upper and under tail coverts, and base of the tail, white; 

 the rest of the tail brown, edged with rufous, like the quills; legs 

 black. — Inhabits Senegal. 



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