38 «Mr. Mont acu’s Defcriptions of. 
over the eye is a bright brimftone-coloured ftroke; the cheeks and 
throat yellow; the upper part of the breaft, white tinged with 
yellow; the lower part, belly, and under tail-coverts, pure white; 
the quill feathers are dutky, edged on their exterior webs with yel- 
low green; the tail very little forked, coloured like the wing fea+ 
thers, except the two outmoft, which want the yellow margin: the 
legs are of a yellowifh brown. 
The female caught on the neft weiiied three drams. 
This bird is a migratory {pecies, and like moft, 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 
bufhes, conftruéted of dry grafs, with a few dead leaves and a 
very little mofs externally, and lined with finer grafs anda few 
Jong hairs. Its fhape is oval, with the entrance near the top, like 
thofe of the Yellow Wren and Leffer Pettichaps; but materially dif- 
‘fers from them in the internal part of its ftru€ture, as thofe birds 
invariably line their nefts with feathers. The eggs weigh from 
eighteen to twenty-two grains 5 ; their colour white; {prinkled all 
over with ruft-colour fpots: in fome thofe markings are confluent. 
Thefe obfervations were intended to be prefented to the Linnean 
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 in the fecond volume of the Linnean Tranfattions, p. 2463 
but as neither the female, neft, eggs, or place of nidification is 
mentioned, I have thought proper to retain the original form of 
my notes, efpecially as Mr. Lamb makes mention of my name as 
having noticed the bird firft to him under the denomination of 
Wood Wrén, which name he has retained. I cannot, however, 
6 take 
