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forsake the place : it is generally found near ha- 

 bitations, in villages, and small towns : its nest, as 

 before mentioned, is generally built in old ruinous 

 walls, or hollow trees ; it is composed chiefly of 

 moss, and lined with hair and feathers ; the eggs 

 are five or six in number, of a fine blue, not much 

 unlike those of the Hedge Warbler, but larger, 

 and of a lighter cast. The young, at first, are 

 speckled all over. 



Its song is rather agreeable, and it will imitate 

 that of other birds in confinement, which, how- 

 ever, but few individuals of this species will bear, 

 unless they be brought up from the nest: it is 

 migratory, appearing about the middle of April, 

 and retiring the latter end of September or be- 

 ginning of October ; it is rarely seen farther to the 

 north than Yorkshire, or to the west than Exeter. 

 Its food consists of insects and worms: when 

 perched, it has a peculiar method of wagging its 

 tail. 



TITHYS WARBLER. 

 ( Sylvia Tithys.) 



SY. remigibus nigricantibus , rectricibus nifis, intermedia pari nigro 



extrorsum rufescente. 

 Warbler with dusky quills, and rufous tail-feathers ; the two 



middle ones black, outwardly rufous. 



Sylvia Tithys. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 512. 16. Scop. Ann. 1. 233. 

 Motacilla Tithys. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 335. 34. fi.Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 987- j8. 

 Redstart. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 423, c. 



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