12 Mr, Lightfoot's Account of 



Juteo-fulvo, Cauda fubcuneata fufea, plantis luteo- 

 virefcentibus. 



In regard to fynonyms, the only author I can find who can 

 be fufpeded of having noticed this bird is Sepp, who, in a late 

 fplendid work, in the Dutch language, Intituled, Nederl'andfche 

 Vogelen ffol. chart. max,) p. i o i , has defcribed and figured a bird, 

 under the name of Turdus arundinaceus minimus^ called . in Hol- 

 land Karrakietje, which in many refpe£ls agrees with our bird ; 

 but as the colour of the wings in that figure is made a reddifh 

 brown, inflead of an olive-brown, and the tawny- white Lor a 

 (a moft effential chara^lier to diflinguifh the fpecies) are not at 

 all exprefled j and the eggs are made to be of a pale-blufh colour 

 with dark fpots, inftead of a dirty-white with olive fpots ; I. 

 cannot pronounce for certain, that the bird there intended by 

 that writer is the fame which we have now defcribed; though, 

 if fome allowance be made for ill- colouring, and other omif* 

 iions, it may poffibly have been ddigned for the fame fpecies. 



As we have already a bird, called In Engllfli. the Willow^ 

 wren ; ours, being nearly of the fame lize and fhape, as well as 

 the fame genus, may, from, its haunts, not improperly be 

 denominated the Reed-wren. 



It frequents the banks of the river Cola near Uxbridge, as . 

 far as from Harefield-Moor down to Iver, about the. fpace of. 

 five miles, and very probably moil other parts of the fame..= 

 river, though not as yet obferved. 



It is alfo certainly found in the neighbourhood of Dartford 

 in Kent, from:whence a nefl -and eggs were communicated by . 

 the ingenious Mr,. Latham of that place, but without knoww. 

 ledge of the bird to which they belonged ; fo that there: is 

 little doubt but. that it . may .be found in many parts of the 



kingdom. 



Its 



