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TheStone-fmich, or Stone-chatter^ or Moor-titling. Oenanthus noftra tertia : Mufcicapa 



tertia Aldrov. The Rubetra ofBellonius as we judge, which Gefner makes 



the fame with his Todtenvogel, or Flugenftecherlin. 



jTisofthebignefs of z Linnet, or thereabouts: Of half an ounce weight: From 

 J Bill-point to Tail-end five inches long. Its Bill is (lender, (height, black as well 

 within as without. The upper Chap a thought longer than the nether, and a little 

 crooked: The Tongue cloven : the hides of the Eyes hazel-coloured: The Legs^ 

 Feet, and Claws black $ the outer Toe grows to the middle one below, as in other 

 iraall birds. The Head is great, in the Cock almoft wholly black,as is alfo the Throat 

 under the Bill : In the Hen it is particoloured of black and a dirty red. The upper 

 part of the Neck is black 3 on each fide it is marked with a white fpot, fo that the bird 

 feems to have a ring of white about its Neck. The middle of the Back is black, on- 

 ly the outmoft edges of the feathers fulvous. Above the Rump is a white fpot. 

 The Bread: is fulvous, or of a yellowiih red colour 1 The Belly white, with a da(h 



of red. 



[In the Female the feathers of the Head, Neck, and Back from red inclining to 

 green, having their middle parts black, the Rump is red $ the Chin of a pale afti- 

 colour. It hath a whitith fpot on each fide the Neck : The Breaft is of a deeper, but 

 the belly of like colour with the Cocks.] 



The prime feathers of the Wings are all dusky, excepting the two next to the body, 

 which have a white fpot at bottom. The edges of all are red. All the covert fea- 

 thers of the Wings have alfo red edges. The Wings in both Sexes are adorned with 

 a white fpot in the feathers next the Back. The Tail is near two inches long,and con- 

 fifts of twelve feathers, not forked, and black. . [The tip and exteriour Web of the 

 outmoft feather oh each fide are white. ] 



It hath a Gall-bladder 5 a Stomach not very fteftiy, in which differed We found 

 Beetles, and other Infeds * fhort, round, tumid blind Guts. 



That which I [ J. R- ] defcribed at Florence differed fomewhat in colours, and 

 other accidents 5 thus : It was of thebignefs of a lefier Titmoufe : Its Body fhort and 

 round : Its Head, for the proportion of its body, great. The top of the Head, the 

 Neck, and Back particoloured of black and a dirty red, the middle part of each fea- 

 ther being black, and the edges red. Thequil-feathers are eighteen, all dusky, their 

 exteriour edges being of a femUe-mort colour. Of the feathers of the fecond row 

 thofefive on the middle joynt are bhck, with feuille-mort edges, the reft are of the 

 fame colour with the quil-featheis. The leiler rows are of like colour with the 

 forefaid five middle feathers, The Tail-feathers are all black, only their edges are 

 paler. The Cock is black about both Eyes, and under the Throat, the tips of the 

 feathers being white. The Breaff and parts under the Wings in both Sexes are ful- 

 vous or red 5 the middle of the Belly being whiter. The feathers of this bird are 

 foft, and ftand ruffling out, as in a Jay. In all other points it agrees with the above 

 defcribed, fo that I doubt not but it is the fame. 



The third and fourth Mufiicaps of Aldrovand differ not, I think, from this, nor 

 from one another otherwife than in colour. 



It is found for the moft part in Heaths, and is very querulous. 



§. IV. 



* The Brafilian Guiraru Nheengeta of Marggrave, which may be called, 

 The American Chat. 



IT is as big, or a little bigger than a Water-Blackbird, or Crake? hath a (freight, com- 

 preiTed, black Bill, more than half an inch long : Sapphire-coloured Eyes, with 

 a black Pupil. The * upper Legs are covered with a(h-coloured feathers : The lower * others call 

 with a black skin, as are alfo the Feet, which have four Toes (landing after the ufual*J£ h c « e 

 manner, with (harp, black Claws. The whole Head, Neck, Breaft, and lower Belly 

 are cloathed with white feathers approaching to a dilute grey 3 but the Back with 

 cinereous. From the Bill on each fide through the Eyes to the end of the fides of the 

 Head is a long black fpot extended. The Wings are black, but not of a deep colour. 



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