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lowiffi: the throat is yellow ; the bread is yellow, with a tinge of red, and the belly 
is white. ' 
This is frequent in mod parts of Europe ; it lives principally on heaths, arid is very 
noify. All the writers on birds have defcribed it. Bellonius calls it Rubetra ; others* 
Mufcitrapa tertia. 
Moiacilla peElore cce?*uleo , macula flavefcente , albedine evict a* 
The blue-breafled Motacilla . 
This is of the bignefs of the chaffinch : the head is large ; the eyes are hazel, with 
a tinge of grey ; the beak is flender, ffiarp, and black: the head, the back, and the 
tail are grey : there is a fmall white fpot on each fide of the head, near the corner of 
the eye, and from the bafe of the beak to the bread there runs a deep blue beak: at 
the beginning of the bread it is terminated by a fpot of yellow, and in the midd of 
it there is alfo a yellowiffi fpot, furrounded with whitiffi ; the red of the bread is 
white; the belly alfo is white, but under the tail it is yellowiffi. The female is 
throughout of a paler colour than the male, and ffie has not that fpot of white at the 
eye. 
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This is frequent in many parts of Europe, but I have not feen it in England. Au¬ 
thors call it Ruticilla tertia and Uleg fiecklinj others, Avis Carolina. 
Motacilla ruffo cinerea , gentium atmulis cinereis. 
The browniff-grey Motacilla , with the annules of '50)0 ffyiQfyitUQalt* 
the knees grey . 
This is more eminent for the fweetnefs of it’s note, than for it’s beauty; it is of 
the fize of the linnet, but in ffiape it more refembles the red-bread : the head is fmall; 
the eyes are large, and their iris is pale : the beak is dufky, dender, and moderately 
long; the head, neck, and back are of a greyifh-brown ; the upper parts of the wings 
have a tinge of reddifh mixt with this, and there is yet more of this colour about the 
the tail: the throat, the bread* and the belly are of a pale whuifh-grey : the tail is 
white underneath, and the thighs are alfo covered with white feathers, but the knees 
are furrounded, as it were, with rings of grey, 
Authors have all defcribed it under the name of Lufcinia. 
Motacilla gula nigra , abdomine ruffo . 50) & 
The Motacillay with a black throat and reddifh belly . \ ftUtt* 
This is of the fize of the chaffinch, but denderer, in proportion to it’s thicknefs: 
the head is fmall, and fomewhat depreffed ; the eyes are large, and their iris grey, with 
a tinge of hazel: the beak is dender, oblong, and of a dark colour. 
The head, the neck, and the back are are of a bright grey ; the anterior part of the 
head is white : the throat and the fides of the head under the eyes are black : the 
bread is of a reddifh colour, and fo alfo are the rump and the tail, only that two of 
the feathers in the middle are brown: the female is much lefs beautiful than the 
male ; her head and neck are grey, and her bread is pale. 
We have this frequently in our orchards and woods; it is a very beautiful bird. 
Authors cail it Ruddlla and Phcenicurus ; we, the Fire-tail, the Star-finch, and the 
Red-dart. 
Motacilla 
