14 Mr, luiG-ii'vvoo'v^s Account of 



fufpended or faftened on; like a hammock, between three or 

 four ftalks of reeds, below the panicles of flowers, in fuch a 

 manner that the ftalks run through the fides of the ncfts at 

 nearly equal diftances ; or, to fpeak more properly, the neft 

 is tied on to the reeds with dead grajs^ andfometimes (as being 

 more eligible when it can be had) even with thread and pack- 

 thread, emulating the work of a fempftrefs, as was the cafe of 

 the nefl exhibited in the drawing. The bird, 'however, though 

 generally, does not always confine her building to the fupport 

 of reeds ; fometimes fhe fixes it on to the branches of the 

 Water-dock; and, in one inftance only (that here delineated), 

 it was found faftened to the trifurcated branch of a Syringa 

 bufh, or Fhiladeiphus, growing in a garden hedge by the rivet 

 fide. 



She lays commonly four eggs ; the ground colour a dirty 

 white, flained all over with dull olive-coloured fpots, but 

 chiefly at the greater end, where are generally feen two or 

 three fmall irregular black fcratches ; but thefe are fometimes 

 "fcarcely vifible. 



I mufl not omit, that both the nefl and eggs which I have 

 now defcribed, whether defigned for the fame Or not, are well 

 expreffed by Sepp, in the work above cited, under the article 

 'Turdus Calamoxenus^ or Rietvinck, p. 97, ; but as the bird there 

 reprefented is evidently the Motacilla Sylvia^ Lin. or common 

 White-throat (which is known to make a very different neft), I 

 am inclined to believe, that the author, by miflake, placed a 

 bird and nefl in the fame plate which do not belong to each 

 other. 



1 have reafon to think, that the bird I have been charac- 

 terizing is a bird of migration; for the inhabitants on the fides 



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