BRITISH BIRDS, ^33 
THE STONECHAT. 
STONE-SMITH, MOOR TITLING. 
(Mot aril la Yubecola , Lin . — Le Traquet y BufF.) 
Length near five inches: The bill is black; 
eyes dark hazel ; the head, neck, and throat are 
black, faintly mixed with brown ; on each fide of 
the neck, immediately above the wings, there is a 
large white fpot ; the back and wing coverts are of 
a fine velvet black, margined with reddifh brown ; 
the quills are dufky, with pale brown edges' — thofe 
next the body are white at the bottom, forming a 
fpot of that colour on the wings ; the breafl is of a 
bay colour, lighteft on the belly ; the rump white ; 
the tail is black, the outer feathers margined with 
rull colour; the legs are black: The colours of 
the female are duller; the white on the fides of 
the neck is not fo confpicuous ; the breaft and bel- 
