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in the neighbourhood of the Pentland Hills, are now in the 

 Edinburgh Museum, and furnished the drawings for the 

 present work. Another female bird was also taken in a gar- 

 den at Tynemouth, in Northumberland, in the spring of the 

 year 1821 ; and two or three additional instances of its cap- 

 ture in England have since been recorded. Upon the conti- 

 nent it is of more frequent occurrence, and breeds in some 

 parts of France and Italy. — It inhabits woods and thickets, Food. 

 and feeds upon berries, grapes, and other fruits, as well as 

 on insects. — The nest is formed of straw and dried grasses, Nest, &c, 

 intermixed with wool (which also frequently composes the 

 principal part of the internal coating), and is artfully sus- 

 pended by its outer rim to the extreme fork of some lofty 

 branch. It lays four or five eggs, white, with isolated dark- 

 brown spots. The young are fed with insects, &c., and the 

 parents are observed to be particularly assiduous in the sup- 

 port, and bold in the defence, of their progeny. The sin- 

 gular and well-chosen situation of the nest, indeed, argues a 

 superior degree of parental instinct. 



This bird migrates from Europe about September, and 

 is supposed to winter in the warmer regions of Asia and 

 Africa. 



Plate 35. Fig. 1. The adult male, natural size. 



Form typical. Bill orange-red. Between the eye and bill General 

 is a black streak. Irides reddish-brown. Head, neck, tig^,^"^'" 

 back, and under parts, yiBllow. Wings black, having Male bird, 

 the outer webs margined with white. Greater wing- 

 coverts tipped with yellow. The two middle tail-feathers 

 black, the rest half-black half-yellow% Legs and toes 

 black. 



Fig. 2. The female ; also of t'tie natural size. 



Upper parts olive-green. Throat and breast greyish- General 

 white, with dusky streaks. Belly and vent white, tinged <lescrip- 

 more or less with yellow, and streaked dusky. Wings Feniale. 

 brownish-black, edged with joale oil-green. Tail deep 



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