100 WARBLER. 



This is found in the same places as the last, with much the same 

 manners, and like that, fastening the nest between the reeds; the 

 eggs five or six in number, and white. 



100.— FAMILIAR WARBLER. 



Traquet familier, Levail. Afr. iv. 97. pi. 1S3. 1. 2. 



SIZE of the Tree Sparrow. Bill and eye brown; plumage in 

 general grey brown, with a slight tinge of rufous, deeper on the 

 upper parts ; the breast and flanks, ears and rump, rufous; the two 

 middle tail feathers brown, the others the same, with the outer edges 

 rufous; legs black. The female smaller than the male. 



Inhabits various parts about the Cape of Good Hope ; is very 

 tame, and, like many others, has the appearance of being allied to 

 the Stone-Chat; is continually beating the wings, and flirting up the 

 tail ; feeds on insects, and observed to sweep them off a stone, the 

 rump of a horse, or other elevated object ; the nest made under a 

 stone, or in a hole in the earth ; the eggs four in number, greenish 

 grey, spotted with brown ; both sexes sit in turn, and are always 

 together, and the whole family keep generally in company till the 

 following spring. 



101— LUZONIAN WARBLER. 



Sylvia Caprata, Ind. Orn. ii. 524. 



Motacilla Caprata, Lin. i. 335. Gm. Lin. i. 986. 



Rubetra Lucionensis, Bris. iii. 442. t. 24. 2. — male. f. 3. — female. Id. 8vo. i. 432. 



Traquet Fourmilier, Levail. Afr. iv. 108. pi. 186. 187. 



de l'lsle de Lu^on, Bvf. v. 229. PI. enl. 235. f. 1. 2. 



Luzonian Warbler, Gen. Syn.iv. 451. Shaw's Zool.s. 630. 



SIZE of the Stone-Chat ; length four inches and a half. Bill 

 dusky ; the whole bird blackish brown, except the lesser wing coverts 



