12 Mr. Lightfoot's Account of 



]uteo-fulvo, Cauda fubcuneata fufca, plantis luteo 

 virefcentibus. 



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

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

 fplendid work, in the Dutch language, intituled, Nederlandfche 

 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 Karrahietje^ which in many refpe6ls agrees with our bird ; 

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

 brown, inftead of an olive-brown, and the tawny-white Lora 

 (a moft eifential chara6ler to diftinguifli the fpecies) are not at 

 all exprefled ; and the eggs are made to be of a pale-blufli colour 

 with dark fpots, inllead 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^ 

 fions, it may pofi^bly have been defigned for the fame fpecies. 



As we have already a bird, called in Engliih the Willow^ 

 *ivren ; ours, being nearly of the fame fize and fliape, as well as. 

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

 denominated the Reed- wren. 



It frequents the banks of the river Coin near Uxbridge, as 

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

 five miles, and very probably mofl: 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 nefi: and eggs were communicated by 

 the ingenious Mr. Latham of that place, but without know- 

 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. 



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