This fpecics is OAe of our earlleft breeders, frequently layifig 

 tlie firft week in April, at which time its note is very lively^ 

 though not of any length ; it ceafes to fing after the firft week 

 in June ; its fong is generally uttered when on wing^ and 

 moftiy while in the ail of defcending. Its principal food is 

 worms and infeds, the latter it feizes in the manner of th^ 

 fly-catchers, by fpringing at them as they fly over it, and then 

 returns to the fame fpray to wait the appearance of fome other. 

 It hops and alfo runs on the ground in the manner of the lark. 



Its provincial names are Blacky-Top, Stone-Smith, Moor* 

 Titling, Black-C^p, and Stone- Smich. 



NOTE. 



In our defcription to the Red-Breaft, we inadvertently gave it the 

 fpecific name of the prefent fpecies^ it feould have been Motacilla 

 Rubecula, 



