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the (boulder, which is white; the under parts, from chin 
to vent, are white alfo ; the greateft coverts and quills 
brown, with pale margins. The tail is of a very lingular 
conftruftion : for the end of each feather, for about one- 
third of its length, is almoft bare of webs, ending in a 
point; the four middle feathers are ferruginous, the others 
reddifh brown, with the ends white ; legs brown. Native 
of Terra del Fuego. 
137. Motacilla Magellanica, the Magellanic warbler: 
length four inches and a half: bill half an inch; vifage 
dome what prolonged ; irides reddifh; upper parts of the 
.body yellow brown, waved with black, with a mixture of 
red, efpecially on the lides over the wings; under parts 
cinereous yellow, croffed with blackifh; tail yellowifh 
brown, mixed with red, and barred with black lines, and 
very fhort, the lor.geft feather being only one inch ; legs 
yellow. This likewife inhabits Terra del Fuego. 
138. Motacilla citrina, the citron warbler: fize of a 
wren : bill ftraigbt, and black ; irides pa]e blue ; plumage 
above citron yellow ftreak'ed with duiky ; fides of the 
head, beneath the eye, fore part of the neck, and breaft, 
white; belly, thighs, vent, and rump, citron yellow; tail 
lhort, only half an inch long ; colour black, with the tips 
dull yellow ; legs dark brown. Inhabits Duiky Bay, in 
New Zealand. 
139. Motacilla longipes, the long-legged warbler: 
length four inches and a half: bill black; irides bluifh 
afn-colour; upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, 
elegant pale green ; forehead, ficles of the head, under the 
eye, and fides of the neck, alh-colour; above the eye a 
femicircular white mark; the under parts are very pale 
aih-colour; thigh and vent greenifh; tail fhort ; legs 
long, and flefh-coloured ; toes and claws flout. Inhabits 
Dufky Bay, New’ Zealand, and is named there e teetee tee 
poinom. 
140. Motacilla aurata, the gilt-headed warbler: pre¬ 
vailing colour yellow; the upper part of the head and 
rump orange; throat deep blue; wings and tail brown. 
Bill and legs pale browm; between the bill and eye each 
fide a fmall patch of white. Inhabits India. 
141. Motacilla minima, the lead warbler: above pale 
browm, beneath whitifh ; bill and very fhort tail yellowifh. 
Inhabits New' Holland; three inches long. 
142. Motacilla varia, the variegated warbler: length 
four inches and a half: bill dufky ; top of the head white ; 
fides of it black, marked with two ftreaks of white; back, 
rump, and throat, white, marked with large black fpots ; 
bread and belly white, fpotted with black; wing-coverts 
black, eroded with tw’o white bands ; quills blackifh, 
edged with grey; tail blackifh, edged with grey outwardly; 
' legs greenifh brown. Found in Pennfylvania during the 
fummer; coming in April, and departing in autumn. It 
alfo inhabits Jamaica, St. Domingo, and New York, where 
it is found among the maples. 
143. Motacilla ifterocepliala, the yellow-headed war¬ 
bler: length about four inches: bill dufky; top of the 
bead yellow'; between the bill and eye a large triangular 
black fpot; hind part of the neck, and all the upper parts, 
black, edged with yellow'ifh green; throat and under 
parts whitifh ; acrofs the wing two yellow'ifh bars ; quills 
and tail dufky, edged with olive-green and whitifh ; legs 
■dufky. This inhabits Canada and the northern parts of 
North America, into which it migrates the beginning of 
April. It frequents low fhrubs, and the under branches 
of the red cedars ; and departs in autumn. 
144.. Motacilla Dominica, the Dominica warbler: length 
four inches and a half: bill brown; upper parts of the 
bird afh-coloured; throat and fore part of the neck pale 
yellow; from thence to the vent white; between the bill 
and eye a ftreak of yellow ; beneath the eye a large fpot 
of black, and behind it a white fpot; fides of the breaft 
marked with finall black fpots ; wing-coverts brown, 
crofted with two white bands; quills and tail cinereous 
brown, edged with grey; legs browm. Found in Jamaica 
«nd Dominica. 
745. Motacilla cimfto, the belted wafbler: length five 
inches : bill black ; plumage of the uppe* parts deep cine¬ 
reous blue; on the middle of the crown a fpot of yellow ; 
over the eye a w'hite ftreak ; acrofs the w'ing-coverts two 
bands of white ; the under parts white ; lower part of the 
neck and breaft fpotted with blaqkifh; acrofs the breaft 
a yellow' cinfture or belt, near a (juarter of an inch in 
breadth; quills brown, edged with grey; tail blackifh, 
edged with afh-colour ; legs brown. The female has the 
upper parts wholly brown. Native of Canada. 
146. Motacilla tcheric, the white-eyed warbler; called 
M. Madagafcarienfis in Gmelin’s Linn, but we have 
already one of that name, which is the 8th fpecies. The 
prefent is the fize of a wren : bill grey brown ; round the 
eyes white ; the head, and upper parts, olive green ; throat 
and vent yellow; quills pale brown, margined with olive ; 
two middle tail-feathers olive green ; the others brown, 
edged with olive; legs cinereous. The eyelids are not 
membranous, as Button makes them, but are formed of 
minute feathers, as Briffon formerly obferved, and which 
is now confirmed by Vaillant. This bird inhabits Madras, 
the Mauritius, Madagafcar, and feveral diftrifts- in the 
interior part of fouthern Africa. At Madagafcar it is 
called tcheric; the Dutch at the Cape, and the Hottentot 
fettlers, call it g-lafs-oog-, glafs-eye, or wit-oog , white-eye, 
which is the name it bears in the Ifle of Bourbon. The 
female is fomewhat fmaller than the male ; her back is 
more of an olive-colour, throat and front of the neck of 
a duller yellow; the eyebrows are lefs apparent, being 
not fo full nor of fo bright a white. The young are not 
furnifhed with eyebrows till after the fecond moult. They 
go in flocks of fix or eight, moftly a fingle family. They 
feed on infefls, efpecially young caterpillars, and the eggs 
of butterflies, which they get in the trees. They build 
at the extremity or the low branches of the mimofa-tree; 
the neft is fhaped exaftly like that of our chaffinch ; it 
confifts of thin bits of roots interwoven, covered outfide 
with niols, and lined with dowm or hair; it is feldom more 
than two inches in diameter. The eggs are four or five 
in number ; the male and female fit alternately, and both 
are much attached to their young; “as I had occafion to 
obferve one day,” fays Vaillant, “ w'hen I found a nelt 
w'ith four young ones which were fo forward, that they 
jumped out before I could put my hand upon them. 
The old ones defended them with fo much boldnefs and 
fo little precaution, that I was able to kill them both 
with the ramrod of my gun.” They are indeed not flyy 
at any time: they utter a little fong or cry, titititiri, 
titititiri, when they are feeking among the leaves of the 
trees for the infefts and eggs on which they feed. The 
fpecies is very common in fouthern Africa, efpecially 
about the river called Duyven-ocks, among the Caffres, 
at Bruntjes-hoogte, and others where is plenty of wood. 
147. Motacilla Borbonica, the Bourbon warbler: fize 
of the preceding: bill, and under parts, grey brown; 
beneath, dirty yellowifh grey; quills and tail brown, 
edged with grey ; legs brown. Inhabits the iflands of 
Madagafcar and Bourbon: at the laft it is called Petit 
Simon. It makes its neft in September, and generally 
lays three blue eggs. The neft is compofed of dried 
plants, lined with hair, and generally placed on trees 
which ftand fingly, as in orchards. They keep in flocks, 
and feed on infefts and tender fruits. 
148. Motacilla Mauritians, the Mauritius warbler : 
length three inches three quarters; bill blackifh; upper 
parts of the body blue grey ; the under white ; quills and 
tail black, edged with white; legs grey. Inhabits Mau¬ 
ritius, or the Ifle of France. 
149. Motacilla livida, the lead-coloured warbler: four 
inches and a half in length : upper parts deep lead-colour; 
under the fame, but paler, changing to white at the vent; 
quills black, edged with white; tail black, except the 
two outer feathers, which are white; bill and legs pale 
lead-colour. 
150. Motacilla flavefeens, the citron-bellied warbler: 
four inches and a quarter in length : upper part of the 
head and body brown; quills dark brown, edged with 
5 rufous; 
