BRITISH BIRDS. 9 
THE WHITE-RUMP. 
WHEATEAR. 
( Motacilla oenanthe , Lin . — -Le Moiteux> on le cul-blcinc y Buff.) 
Length five inches and a half : The bill is 
black ; eyes hazel ; from the bafe of the bill a 
black ftreak extends over the eyes, cheeks, and 
ears, where it is pretty broad ; above this there is 
2 . line of white ; the top of the head, back part of 
the neck, and back are of a blueilh grey ; the wing 
coverts and quills are dufky, edged' with rufty 
white ; the rump is perfectly white, as is alfo part 
of the tail ; the reft is black ; the under parts are 
of a pale buff colour, tinged with red on the breaft ; 
legs and feet black. In the female the white line 
above the eye is fomewhat obfcure, and all the 
black parts of the plumage incline more to brown ; 
neither is the rump of fo pure a white. 
