WARBLER. 73 



Muscicapa leucomela, Ind. Orn. ii.469. Shaw's Zool. x. 328. 

 Leucomele Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 456. 



LENGTH six inches and a quarter. Bill and irides dusky ; 

 forehead, crown, nape, lower part of the breast, belly, rump, and 

 greater part of the tail white ; the other parts black ; the two middle 

 tail feathers black, the others white, with a broad band of black at 

 the end ; claws black. 



The female is dusky, or cinereous brown above ; head and neck 

 palest, beneath inclining to ash-colour; throat and neck before cine- 

 reous grey ; above the eye a white streak ; tail as in the male. 



Inhabits the craggy, cavernous places about Saratow, and other 

 parts of the Volga, and like the Sand Martin makes a hole in 

 a bank, wherein to place the nest ; this hole is horizontal, and 

 deep; the nest composed of dry stalks, and other materials; the 

 young ten in number. It is a bold bird, and sits on the stones and 

 stumps of trees, twittering almost like a Swallow; supposed to feed 

 on worms and beetles, as the remains of the latter have been found 

 in the stomach on dissection. 



62— BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER. 



Motacilla melanoleuca, N. C. Petr. ,xix. 46S. t. 15. Gm. Lin. i. 948. 

 Muscicapa melanoleuca, Ind. Orn. ii. 469. Shaw's Zool. x. 328. 

 Black and White Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 457. Nat. Misc. pi. 629; 



BILL and irides black ; the whole of the back white ; tail white 

 at the tip ; about one-third of the ends of the two middle feathers 

 are black, from thence the black decreases, as the feathers are more 

 outward ; thighs annulated brown and white. 



The female is brown and dirty ash-colour where the male is 

 black and white. 



This bird is met with, throughout the summer, about Teflis and 

 Cyrus, in Georgia ; feeds on insects ; frequents the banks of rivers 



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