57^2 ORANGE-BREASTED WHEATEAR. 



The uppet part of the plumage of this bird is 

 brown, spotted with dusky black : the wiag-coverts 

 and quills black, edged with sullied white : pri- 

 maries black : rump and upper tail-coverts brown : 

 eyelids yellowish white : neck and breast spotted 

 with black: under parts of the plumage dusky 

 white : sides spotted with dusky : tail black, with 

 the outer webs and tips of the exterior feathers, 

 and the bases of the rest, white : legs yellowish. 

 Inhabits Provence with the last, which it greatly 

 resembles : it may possibly be a variety of that 

 species. 



ORANGE-BREASTED WHEATEAR. 

 (Vitiflora aurantia.) 



Vi. fusca, subtus aurantia, gutture albido infra nigro mrio, tec- 

 tricibus alarum majoribiis caudceque albis, rectricibus Juscis^ la - 

 teralibus apice albis. 



Brown V^^heatear, beneath orange-coloured, with the throat 

 whitish, varied with black beneath; the greater wing-coverts 

 and tail white ; the feathers of the latter fuscous, the outer 

 ones tipped with white. 



Sylvia aurantia. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 531. 83. 



Motacilla aurantia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. g65. 



Motteux ou Cul-blanc brun-verdatre. Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 

 248. 



Orange-breasted Wheatear. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 470. 79- 



Length six inches : upper parts of the plumage 

 dark brown, varied with greenish brown : the 



