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nearest the body, and the vent, which are white; and in some the 

 rump is white; legs black brown. The female brown above, beneath 

 rufous brown ; throat whitish ; rump and upper tail coverts pale 

 rufous; beneath dirty rufous white; tail brown. 



InhabitsManilla, and called Maria-capra. 



Levaillant describes his bird six inches and a half long. Bill stout, 

 black ; general colour of the plumage brown, beneath paler, the 

 feathers edged with pale rufous; chin nearly white; on the shoulders 

 a white patch. The female is smaller, and wants the white on the 

 shoulders, otherwise brown ; the white is also deficient in young 

 birds. 



This last met with about Sondag and Swarte-kop rivers, in the 

 environs of the Caffre Country, and differs from the other, as it 

 perches on great trees, and feeds on ants ; which it is enabled to 

 procure, as the Ant Bear first roots them up. It lays the eggs in an 

 old mole hill, or hole in a rock ; they are five in number, and white; 

 for the most part the birds are found in pairs, and the whole of the 

 nest keep together for some time. 



A. — In some Chinese drawings was one similar. Head, neck, 

 and upper parts blue-black, the under reddish white ; greater wing 

 coverts tipped with white, forming an irregular white bar ; bill and 

 legs pale red. 



102— DARK WARBLER. 



Sylvia magna, Ind. Orn.W. 525. 



Motacilla magna, Gm. Lin. i. 968. 



Le grand Traquet, Buf. v. 232. 



Dark Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 453. Shaw's Zool. x. 698. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill one inch long; head 

 brown, mxed with darker brown; neck above, and body pale brown; 



