. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . iite. Tail, brownish red, but dullerthan in the male; under tail coverts, dull pale reddish brown. The young resemble the female until the following male bird is of a darker grey than the female-, and thelower part of the back of a lighter red. The colour wouldappear to darken with age. *In plumage, says Mr. Gatcombe, in The Naturalist, volumei, page 227, *these birds vary considerably: I have obtainedthem with black breasts, yet without a shade of white onthe tertials; then again with the white on the wings verystrong, and
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . iite. Tail, brownish red, but dullerthan in the male; under tail coverts, dull pale reddish brown. The young resemble the female until the following male bird is of a darker grey than the female-, and thelower part of the back of a lighter red. The colour wouldappear to darken with age. *In plumage, says Mr. Gatcombe, in The Naturalist, volumei, page 227, *these birds vary considerably: I have obtainedthem with black breasts, yet without a shade of white onthe tertials; then again with the white on the wings verystrong, and not a sign of black on the breast: this ai)pear8to me very strange, as the black almost invariably appoar^^ VOL. IV. • E OO BLACKSTAET. before the white. The young males of the year are easilydistinguished from the females, by being of a more uniformslate grey, without the brown tinge that is observable in thefemale It appears that the males are several years in arrivingat their full plumag^e; in very old birds the back is almostas dark as the breast/. 51 STOXECHAT. STONECHATTER. STOXECLIXK. STONE TITLIXa. BLACK CAP. Sylvia ruhicola, Pexnant. 3IotaciUa Tschecautschiay Gmelin. rvhicola, Montagu. Bewick. Saxicola rubicolaf Fleming. Selby. (Enanthe nostra tertia, Ray. Willughby. Si/Ivia. Sijlva—A wood, Ituhicola. Rubus—A bramble. Colo—To inhabit. This species is extensively distributed, being found through-out Europe in Holland, G-ermany, Switzerland, France, andItaly, as also, it is said, in some parts of Russia. In Asiait has been noticed in different parts of Hmdostan, and inAsia Minor, as also, according to M. Temminck, in Africa Le Yaillant and Dr. Smith obtained specimens atthe Cape of Good Hope. In England, though nowhere abundant, it is not uncommonin suitable localities in all parts of the island, Yorkshire,Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Suffolk, Norfolk, Northum-berland, and other counties; in Ireland also, Scotland so farnorth as Sutherla
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