108 WARBLER. 



114— TRACTRAC WARBLER. 



Le Tractrac, Levail. Afr. iv. 103. pi. 184. 1. 



IN this the bill and legs are dusky ; general colour of the head 

 and upper parts cinereous grey ; lighter on the lower part of the 

 back, rump, and upper tail coverts ; belly and vent white ; irides 

 hazel brown; eyelids surrounded with a range of white feathers; 

 quills black brown, the prime ones bordered with paler brown, and 

 the others with white; tail even, black, terminated with white; the 

 four first feathers on each side bordered on the outer margins with 

 white, but the third and fourth have the white only at the base ; the 

 outer one white the whole of the length. 



The female smaller, and the white on the rump occupies less 

 space. Young birds have the feathers bordered with pale rufous. 



Inhabits the Country of Hottniqua, in the neighbourhood of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, frequenting the bushes, and flying often from 

 one to another, being a wild and restless bird. It scrapes a hole at 

 the foot of a bush, and collects a few dry stalks by way of nest, and 

 lays four greenish eggs, marked with minute brownish points ; has 

 gained the name Tractrac, from the note expressing that word. 



115— WHITE-EYED WARBLER. 



Sylvia Madagascariensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 533. 

 Motacilla Madagascariensis, Gm. Lin. i. 981. 



Maderaspatana, Lin. i. 334. 



Ficedula Madagascariensis minor, Bris. iii. 498. t. 28. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 446. 

 Le Tcheric, Bvf. v. 279. Levail. Afr. iii. 136. pi. 132. 1. 2. 

 White-eyed Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 475. Shaw's Zoo/, x. 720. 



SIZE of the Yellow Wren. Bill black ; irides brown ; plumage 

 above olive-green, much as in that bird, but lighter, and inclined to 



