. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . ofthe bill, in which the eyes are placed; and it spreadsbackward and covers the ears. The top of thehead and the back are of a grayish lead-colour; therump, a pure white. The tail consists of twelve feath-ers ; the two middlemost are black, except about halfan inch of white at their bottoms ; all the restare white, with black dps. The throat, sides of theneck, and upper part of the breast, are of a ver
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . ofthe bill, in which the eyes are placed; and it spreadsbackward and covers the ears. The top of thehead and the back are of a grayish lead-colour; therump, a pure white. The tail consists of twelve feath-ers ; the two middlemost are black, except about halfan inch of white at their bottoms ; all the restare white, with black dps. The throat, sides of theneck, and upper part of the breast, are of a very palebrown: and in the male birds, when they first arrivehere, there is a pretty blush of crimson over the brown,which fades in the course of the summer. The win^sare black; the legs and feet, long, slender, and the female, the white line over the bill and eyes iswanting ; the black line, in which the eyes are placed,is narrow, and not extended over the ears; the headand back are dusky brown, and the wings of a bistrecolour. The cock, in breeding time, has a pleasingsoft song. The Wheat-ear inhabits fields surroundedwith stone-wallsj on which it sits, seldom alighting «5s--
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