THE FURZE-CHATS. 
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fruticwala rubetra, Macg., Br. B., ii., p. 273 (1839). 
Saxicola rubetra , Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 344 (1873)- 
Pratincole rubetra, Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p. 255, pis. 37, 3 
(1873); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., iv., p. 179 ( i 8 79 ) > 
Seeb , Br. B, i., p. 312 (1883) ; B. O. U. List Br. Bp. 7 
(1S83) ; Lilford, Col. Fig., Br. B., pt. 11. (1886); Saunders, 
Man., p. 27 (1889). 
Adult Male. -General colour above brown, streaked with 
blackish-brown centres to the feathers ; the rump and upper 
tail-coverts rather more rufous, the latter with white margins ; 
scapulars like the back, but with a blackish shoulder-spot on 
the sides of the mantle ; wing-coverts blackish, with sandy- 
brown edges, the inner, median, and greater coverts white, with 
■dusky brown ends, forming a wing-patch ; primary- coverts 
white at base, with blackish tips, forming a speculum ; quills 
dark brown, the primaries white at the extreme base, the 
secondaries fringed with whity-brown at the ends ; centre tail- 
feathers brown, the remainder white, with the terminal third 
brown, forming a broad band ; crown of head darker than the 
back the feathers edged with sandy-buff; a broad white eye- 
brow, commencing at the nostrils; lores and sides of lace 
blackish the ear-coverts bronzy-brown; cheeks and chin white, 
extending on to the sides of the neck; centre of the throat 
and breast light cinnamon-rufous, as also the sides of the body , 
centre of breast and abdomen, and under tail-coverts, light 
sandy-buff ; axillaries light cinnamon, with dusky bases ; under 
wing-coverts dusky brown, with whitish edges ; quills dusky 
below ashy-whitish along the inner web; bill and feet black; 
iris brown. Total length, 5-4 inches ; culmen, 0-5 ; wing, 
3-05 ; tail, 1 -8 ; tarsus, o-8. 
Adult Female.— Different from the male, and rather browner ; 
the rufous of the throat and sides of the body paler and more 
orange; the sides of the face not so black, the ear-coverts and 
cheeks being brown, streaked with lighter brown, with a little 
blackish along the cheeks. Total length, 5 inches, wing, 3 o. 
Young Birds after the Autumn Moult much resemble the old 
birds but may always be distinguished by the pale sandy-buff 
tips to the feathers, traces of which remain till the succeeding 
