It 
.£ new Englifh Bird. 
.Th© feathers of the head, neck, back, coverts of the wings and ' 
rump, are of an olive-brown, with a flight tinge of green. The 
quill and tail feathers. are all of a darker hue, or (imply brown ; 
their outward edges of a paler (hade. The tail is two inches 
long, (lightly cuneated, the middle feathers being a little longer; 
than the reft, the others gradually (horter ; all of one uniform 
dun-brown colour edged with paler brown, and a little wedge- 
fhaped at their ends. 
The chin is white ; the throat, bread, belly, and parts about 
the vent, are white with a flight (hade of buff 01 tawny ; 
but all thefe feathers (as in feveral others of this genus) when 
blown alunder, or clofely examined, are found to have their 
bafe or lower half black, except the (hafts, which r are 
white throughout. 
The ridge and under coverts of the exterior angle of the 
wing are of a yellowifh-tawny colour, as are alio the featneis- 
of the thighs ; but thofe of the knees are a (hade darker, or a 
pale yellowifh brown. 
The legs are a light olive ; the foies of the feet bright yel- 
low, with a tinge of green, which foon fades after the bird is 
dead. The inftep is covered with (even large imbricated (bales', 
-and five fmaller on the toes, as in others of the genus. The 
toes (land three before, and one behind ; the claws are nearly 
of equal length and curvature ; but the hindmoft is thickdt 
and flrongeft. 
; 'From the foregoing remarks it .is evident, that the bird men - 
-tforied is a fpecies of : Motacilla, which, as l ean find no inch 
deferibed by any fyflematic writer, I (hall, venture to name, 
•after the-LiNK/EAN manner, 
-Motacilla (arH^inac.ea) (upra.ohvaceO-fuiha,- fubtus albkia, 
ioris et ojbitis ftffcp-albefcentibus, angulo carpi fubtus 
'Q luteo* 
