3% • Mr. Montagu** Defcriptions cf 



over the eye is a bright brimftone-coloured ftroke; the cheeks arid 

 throat yellow; the upper part of the bread, white tinged with 

 yellow; the lower part, belly, an d under tail-coverts, pure white: 

 the quill feathers are dufky, edged on their exterior webs with yel- 

 low green ; the tail very little forked, coloured like the wing fea- 

 thers, except the two outmofl, which want the yellow margin: the 

 legs are of a yelJowiih brown. 



The female caught orf the neft weighed three drams. 



This bird is a migratory fpecies, and like moil, if not all our 

 fummer migrants, the males precede the other fex in their vernal 

 flight a week or ten days. It leaves us about the middle of Sep- 

 tember. 



The neft is formed on the ground, beneath the fhade of trees or 

 bullies, conftruaed of dry grafs, with a few dead leaves and a 

 very little mofs externally, and lined with finer grafs and a few 

 long hairs. Its fhape is oval, with the entrance near the top like 

 thofe of the Yellow Wren and Letter Petticliaps ; but materially dif- 

 fers from them m the internal part of its ftruaure, as thofe birds 

 invariably line their nefls with feathers. The eggs weigh from 

 eighteen to twenty-two grains; their colour white, fprinkled all 

 over with ruft-colour fpots : in fome thofe markings are confluent, 



Thefe obfervations were intended to be prefented to the Linneaa 

 Society immediately after the difcovery of the neft and eggs • but 

 by fome unaccountable means, my notes were miflaid : this* delay 

 gives me the opportunity of feeing the fame bird defcribed by Mr 

 Lamb , n the fecond volume of the Linnean Tranfaftions, p. o 46 - 

 but as neither the female, nefr, eggs, or place of nidincation is 

 mentioned, I have thought proper to retain the original form of 

 my notes, efpecially as Mr. Lamb makes mention of mv name as 

 havmg noticed the bird firft to him under the denomination of 

 Wood Wren, which name he has retained. I cannot, however, 



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