114 WARBLER. 



Found in the same places as the last described, having much the 

 same note, and manners as the European Stone-Chat. Nest and 

 eggs unknown. 



123— SHARP-TAILED WARBLER. 



Motacilla oxura, Sharp-tailed Warbler, Nat. Misc. xxii. pi. 957. 

 Le Figuier a acutipennes, Levail. Afr. iii. 140. pi. 133. 1. 2. . 



SIZE of the Yellow Wren ; length scarcely five inches. Bill 

 dusky, a trifle curved at the point ; irides red brown ; plumage 

 bright rufous, beneath citron yellow, growing white towards the 

 vent; the two first prime quills, and the ends of seven or eight others 

 brownish ; the tail is greatly cuneiform, the tips of the feathers bare 

 of webs, so as to appear like shai'p needles;* the wings reach just 

 beyond the base. 



The female has the under parts dirty white, being yellow only 

 on the throat, otherwise like the male. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, frequenting the Mimosa trees 

 on the borders of Grande Riviere, and the small Isle named Hippo- 

 potamus. M. Levaillant only met with two specimens, and found 

 the remains of insects in the stomach. Its note is a slight warble, 

 but agreeable enough. 



124,-GREAT-TAILED WARBLER. 



Sylvia macroura, Ind. Orn. ii. 545. 



Motacilla macroura, Gin. Lin. i. 953. 



La petite Fauvette tachetee, Buf. v. 161. PI. enl. 752. 2. 



Le Capocier, Levail. Afr. iii. p. 125. pi. 130. f. 1. — male. p. 111. pi. 129. — fern. & nest. 



Merion, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Ixviii. 



Great-tailed Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 500. Shaw's Zool. x. 724. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill brown ; irides pale brown ; all the 

 upper parts of the body brown, the under yellowish white, dashed 



* It does not appear so in Levaillant's plate, for in that, the tips of the tail feathers 

 merel}- run to a point, as in the Grasshopper Warbler. 



