RED WHEATEAR. S69 



Sylvia pileata. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 531. 84, 

 Motacilla pileata. Gmel. Si/sL Nat. 1. 965. 

 Black-hooded Wheatear. Lath. Gen. S'yn. 4. 471. 80. 



Described by Dr. Latham, who informs us that 

 it is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where 

 it is called Schaap Wagter : it is the size of the 

 White-rump : length six inches : beak black : 

 head black, uniting on each side the neck with a 

 deep crescent of the same : the eyebrows are 

 white: forehead and chin the same : the back and 

 wing russet-brown : rump, belly, and tail, white, 

 the whole of the two middle, and tips of the other, 

 feathers of the latter excepted, which are black. 

 It approaches near to the common species. 



red wheatear. 



(Vitiflora rufa.) 



Yi.Jerruginea, alis Juscisy area oculorum caudaque nigris, rec~ 



tricibus extimis latere albis. 

 Ferruginous Wheatear, with the wings brown, space round the 



eyes and the tail black, and the sides of the outer tail-feathers 



white. 



Vitiflora rufa. Briss. Orn. 3. 459. 37. 

 Sylvia Stapazina, Lath, Ind» Orn. 2. 530. 80. 

 Motacilla Stapazina. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q66.—Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 1.331.14. 



Cul-blanc roux. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 246. 

 CEnanthe altera Aldrovandi. Rait. Syn.p. 76. 2. 

 Stapazino. Peti, Arct. Zool. 2. 241. Q. — Raii. Syn. 81. No. 13. 

 var. 



Russet Wheatear. Edwards, Birds, pi. 31.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 

 468.70. 



