FEBRUARY. 13 



2ND THE EARLY BROWN (dark or winter brown,) 

 Full length, near or about five-eighths of an inch ; 

 length, from three-eights to three-eights and one-six- 

 teenth ; wings and feelers near half an inch ; head, 

 shoulders, and body, a dark brown soil color; legs and 

 thighs a dark red brown dim transparency; wings, 

 when folded, have a dark brown grizzly hue and horny 

 shine upon them, broken with dark veins, and three 

 or four wavy stripes across, of a darker shade, which 

 are more or less visible ; the under sides dark, when 

 looked through singly to the light are of a dim brown 

 transparency, shewing the dark veins. They com- 

 mence hatching the beginning of this month, and con- 

 tinue to the end of April. 



Body, head, and shoulders, orange silk, waxed ; fea- 

 thers, for wings, from under the wing of the woodcock, 

 of double shade of color, with a few fibres of dark red 

 brown mohair wrought in at the breast, for legs. 



3. THE LITTLE EARLY BROWN. Full length, 

 three -eights to half an inch; feelers and whisks, one- 

 eight to one-fourth ; head, shoulders, breast, and body, 

 dark brown, and rather shiny, with a slight down upon 

 them, which reflects in the sun a deep gild ; feelers, legs, 

 and thighs, a dark, dim, red brown transparency, with 

 faint deep gilded reflection; folded wings, a grizzly brown 

 hue, veined, and of a brown transparency. They are 

 broader than the needle brown, and probably males to 

 the early brown ; they hatch the beginning of this 

 month, and continue through April. 



Hackled with a feather, from under the swift's wing ; 

 body, orange silk, waxed, with a few fibres of red 

 brown mohair at the breast. 



