3S8 



WHITE-THROAT. Class II. 



in low bufhcs near the ground, making its neft 

 externally of the tender (talks of herbs and dry 

 draw ; the middle part of fine bents and foft grafs, 

 the infide of hair. It lays five eggs of a whitifli 

 green color, fprinkled with black fpots *. Its note 

 is continually repeated, and often attended with 

 odd gefticulations of the wings : is harfh and dif- 

 pleafing: is a fhy and wild bird, avoiding the 

 haunt of man •, feems of a pugnatious difpofition, 

 finging with an ereded crelt, and in attitudes of 

 defiance. 

 Descrip. The head of this bird is of a brownifh afh color, 

 the throat white: the bread and belly white tinged 

 with red •, (in the female wholly white :) the back 

 inclines to red : the lelTer coverts of the wings 

 are of a pale brown ; the greater dufky, edged with 

 tawny brown ; the quil-feathers dufl<y, edged with 

 reddifh brown -, the tail the fame, except the up- 

 per part of the interior fide and whole exterior fide 

 of the outmoft feather, which are white : the less 

 are of a yellowifii brown. 



^'il. 



W. WITH 



