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The Stmechatter, Rubetra/' 



Numb. LII. 



IT S Length from the tip of the Bill to the eixi of the Tail is five In- 

 ches ; Breadth, when the Wings are expanded, eight Inches and a 

 half; Weight eight Drams. The upper Chap is a little longer than the 

 nether, and a little crooked ; the Tongue cloven ; the Irides of the Eyes 

 hazel coloured: The Legs, Feet and Claws black; the outer Toe grows' 

 to the middle one below, as in the other fmall Birds. The Head is 

 great, in the Cock almoft wholly black, as is alfo the Throat under the 

 Bill; in the Hen it is parti-colour'd of black and dirty red: The upper 

 part of the Neck is black, on each Side it is mark'd with a white Spot, fo 

 that the Bird feems to have a Ring of white about its Neck: The middle 

 of the Back is black, only the outermoft Edges of the Feathers arefulvous; 

 above the Rump is a white Spot; the Breaft is of yellowifh red or pale 

 orange Colour, the Belly of the fame Colour but paler. 



In the Female the Feathers of the Head, Neck and Back are red in- 

 clining to green, having their middle parts black; the Rump is red; the 

 Chin of a pale alh Colour: It hath a whitifh Spot on each fide the Neck; 

 the Breaft is of a deeper, but the Belly of Uke Colour with the Cocks. 



The prime Feathers of the Wings are in number eighteen, all dusky, 

 excepting the two next the Body which have a white Spot at bottom; 

 the Edges of all are red ; all the covert Feathers of the Wings have alfo 

 red Edges : The Wings in both Sexes are adorned with a white Spot in 

 the Feathers next the Back. 



The Tail is near two Inches long, and confifts of twelve Feathers not 

 forked and black; the'tip and exteriorWeboftheoutermoftFeather on each 

 fide are white. It hath a Gall-Bladder ; a Stomach not very flefhy, in which 

 when diileded was found Beetles and other Infects ; its blind Guts were 

 iliort, tumid and round. 



This Bird is found for the mofl part on Heaths, and is very querulous. 



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