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82— MOOR WARBLER. 



Sylvia Maura, hid. Om. ii. 526. 



Motacilla Maura, Gm. Lin. i. 975. Pall. It. ii. 708. 



Moor Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 458. Shaw's Zool. x. 640. 



SIZE of the Whin Chat, and not unlike it ; head and neck 

 black, edges of the feathers pale; back and base of the wings black, 

 the latter margined with grey ; sides of the neck, and all beneath, 

 white ; throat deep ferruginous ; wings brown ; on the coverts an 

 oblique yellowish white patch ; rump, and base half of the tail 

 white, the rest black. The female and young bird have the head 

 grey, clouded with brown ; back like that of the Woodcock ; the 

 rest of the body less defined in colour. 



Inhabits Russia, frequenting the birch trees scattered in the 

 woods of Ural, and in the fields planted with them, between the 

 rivers Tobol and Irtisch, flying by pairs. It feeds on insects, and 

 makes the nest in the holes of the trunks of trees, formed by mice, 

 and other small quadrupeds. 



A. — Length six inches. Bill black; plumage above rufous 

 brown, beneath rufous white ; chin and belly white ; over each eye 

 a rufous streak; edges of the wing coverts rufous; quills black, 

 with pale edges; secondaries edged with rufous; rump and base half 

 of the tail white, the rest of the latter black, but the two middle 

 feathers are wholly black ; legs black. 



This was met with among the ice, between Asia and America. 



83— BLUE-TAILED WARBLER. 



Sylvia cyanura, Ind. Orn. ii. 976. 



Motacilla cyanura, Gm. Lin. i. 459. Pall. It. ii. 709. 



Bee-fin, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Ixviii. 



Blue-tailed Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 459. Shaw's Zool. x. 646. 



SIZE of the Redbreast. Plumage in general above cinereous 

 yellow, with a tinge of green ; rump bluish ; over the eyes, the 



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