570 



PROVENCE WHEATEAR. 



Taken at Gibraltar and near Bologna: about 

 six inches in length : the male has the head, neck, 

 back, and breast, of a faint dirty orangey the back 

 darkest, and the breast palest : the lower part of 

 the back has a crescent of black spots : the rump, 

 lower part of the belly, and upper tail-coverts, are 

 white: the chin, cheeks, and throat, black: the 

 wings light brown : the two middle tail-feathers 

 black ; the rest white, edged with black : beak 

 and legs black: the female differs in having the 

 throat white. Willoughby describes a bird that 

 has the wing-feathers half black, half yellow ; the 

 throat, breast, and belly, white ; and the tail to- 

 w^ards the base yellowish : in other respects it 

 agrees very well with the above. It was taken 

 near Nismes. 



PROVENCE WHEATEAR. 

 (Vitiflora massiliensis.) 



Vi. rufa, subtus rufo-alba, pectore nigricante maculata, vertice 

 cerviceque rufo fuscescentibiis, macula sub oculis ochroleuca, 

 rectricibus duabus extimis totis albis. 



Rufous Wheatear, beneath reddish white, with the breast spotted 

 with dusky ; the crown and nape reddish brown ; spot beneath 

 the eyes ochraceous white, and the two outer tail-feathers en- 

 tirely white. 



Sylvia massiliensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. '2. 531. 85. 



Motacilla massiliensis. Gmel. Syst, Nat, 1. 9^5. 



Fist de Provence. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. ig4.^Buff, PL Enl. 

 654./. 1. 



Provence Wheatear. Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 471. 81. 



