PLATE CLI. 



Sylvia Oenanthe ; dorfo cano, fionte llnea fupra oculos uro# 



pygio bafique caudae albis per oculos fafcia ni" 

 gra. Lath, Ind. Orn, f, 529. 79 



Curruca major, peftor^ fubluteo, Frijch, av, t. 22, 



Oenanthe f. vitiflora. Aldr, orn. 2,p, 762. /. 763.. 



Jonjl, Av. 12.3. /. 45./. 13, 



Vitiflora, Brif S,p. 449. 33. 



Culo bianco Z'lnnan, p, i. 6, f. 24.'— C^/// uc, Sard.f, 223. 

 Le Cul-blanc, Vitrec, ou Motteux. Buff. 6. p. 2$7. — FI. EnJ. 554^ 



/. 1,2. 



Wheat- EAR, Fallow-fmich, white tail, white rump. Ray av, 



p. 75. n. \ .—JVill. Orn. p. 233. t. 41. — Albin.. 

 cv. 1. /. 55. 3. t. 64i. ^Edwards av. pref. p. 12. 

 Brit. ZooL i.n. \67.-^Orn. Di^.-^Bewkk v. 1. 

 229. 



Wheat-ear. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. p, 465. IS.—Id. Supp.p. 182^. 

 Snorter. Pult, Cat. Dor/et. p, 9, 



The Wheat-ear is a bird of very pleafing afpe£l : there is a pecu;-. " 

 liar deUcacy in its appearance and manner, which, added to the An- 

 gular contrail of colours its plumage exhibits, entitles it to raore^ 

 than brdinary attention. 



This bird is of the migratory kind, refiding in Britain during the 

 fummer months. The males preceded ufually by the females about 

 ten days or a fortnight, arrive on our fhores in the month of March,, 



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