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The neft is compofed externally of dry ftalks of grafs, lined for ?lac^ andMan- 

 the moft part with the flowery tufts of the common reed ; but ^'^'^^• 



fometimes withfmall dead grafies, and a few black horfe-hairs to 

 cover them. The neft is ufually fufpended, or fattened on, like a 

 hammock, between three or four ftalks of reeds, by means of dead 

 grafs, &c. ; but the bird does not always confine herfelf to the 

 reeds, as inftanccs are feen of the neft being made on the branches 

 of a water-dock j or, as was the cafe in that fronri which the draw- 

 ing was taken, in a trifurcated branch of a fhrub near the water. 

 The eggs are commonly four, of a dirty white, ftained all over 

 with dull olive fpots, chiefly at the largeft end, where are gene- 

 rally feen two or three fmall irregular black fcratches. 



The above bird frequents the river Coin, in Btickinghamjhire, Place. 



and no doubt other rivers and watery places where reeds grow. It 

 is a pretty fhy bird, and not often taken, though the neft is fre- 

 quently met with. It may eafily be miftaken for the Sedge Bird, 

 but is certainly a different fpecies j the circumftance of its having 

 the bafe of the bill much broader than in the Sedge Bird, were 

 there no other charafleriftic, muft alone determine the difference 

 between them. 



Motacilla Tylvia, Z/«. SyJ}. i. p. 230. N" 9 ^.—Faun. Suec. N" 250 ? J52. 



LESSER WHITE 

 IZE of the Telloisj Wren, and of the fame fiender fliape : J^^^^l'^J' 

 length fcarcely five inches. Bill half an inch long, (lender, 

 and dufky 5 bafe of the under mandible pale yellow : irides dark-: 

 the upper parts of the plumage in general pale cinereous brown, 

 fomewhat darker on the crown j the under parts, from the chin 

 to the vent, dufl<y white : the tail two inches in lengtli, of the 

 SuppL-, B b fame 



Pl. cxiii. 



Description. 



