302 MISSEL. Class II. 



back tinged with yellow. The loweft order of 

 Idler coverts, and the great coverts brown : the 

 firft tipt with white ; the lad both tipt and edged 

 with the fame color. The qui! feathers, and fe- 

 condaries dufky •, but the lower part of the inner 

 webs white. The inner coverts of the wino-s 

 white. Tail brown ; the three outmoft feathers tipt 

 with white. Cheeks and throat mottled with brown 

 and white : bread and belly whitifh yellow, marked 

 with large fpots of black : the legs yellow. 



Thefe birds build their nefts in buibes, or 

 on the fide of fome tree, generally an afh, and 

 lay four or five eggs: their note of anger or 

 fear is very harfh, between a chatter and fkreek ; 

 from whence fome of its Englijh names \ its 

 fong though is very fine, which it begins, 

 fitting on the fummit of a high tree, very ear,- 

 ly in the fpring, often with the new year, in 

 blowing fliowery weather, which makes the in- 

 habitants of Hampjhire to call it the Storm-cock, 

 It feeds on infedls, holly and mifTeltoe berrie?, 

 which are the food of all the thrufh kind : in fevere 

 fnowy weather, when there is a failure of their 

 ufual diet, they are obferved to fcratch out of the 

 banks of hedges, the root of Arum^ or the cuckoo 

 pint : this is remarkably warm and pungent, and 

 a provifion fuitable to the feafon. 



This bird migrates into Burgundy in the months 

 oi Otloher ?ind November \ in Great- Britain^ con- 

 tinues the whole year. The ^eljh call this bird 



Pen 



