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fame colour as the body, except the outer feather, which is paler 

 on the outer web ; the two middle feathers are a trifle fhorter than 

 the reft, making the tail appear fomewhat forked when fpread : 

 the wings reach rather more than one third thereon, when at 

 reft : legs deep brown. 



Male and female much alike. 

 Plage andMan- xhc bird was firft introduced to my notice by the Reverend 

 Mr. Lightfoot; who informed me, that it is found in May- and 

 June near Buljirode, in Buckinghamjhire ; and that it builds in 

 hraynhle and other low buflies. The neft is compofed of dry 

 hents mixed with wool, within lined with bents of a finer texture, 

 and here and there a few white hairs of a horfe ox cow, though not 

 fufficient to form a lining. The eggs are white*, marked with 

 fmall dots of brown, and larger irregular blotches of the fame to- 

 wards the larger end j alfo fome other blotches of a paler brown 

 mixed with the laft ; the fmail end quite plain. 



I have much reafon to think that the above has not been de- 

 fcribed by authors as a Britijh fpecies ; and I greatly fufpeft that 

 it differs very little from the Motadllajylvia of Linnaeus, if not the 

 fame bird. That Linnieus's bird is not our White-throat, I be- 

 lieve is manifeft, both from fize and colours. That author ex- 

 prefsly fays, that the fize fcarcely exceeds that o(i\itTeUowWren-\-y. 

 and that it bears great afEnity to the Sedge BirdX- But that the 

 bird in queftion is neither the Tellovj Wren, nor Sedge Bird, I am 

 clear, as I have all the three now before me. 



* There were only three in the neft which came under my infpeftion» 

 -J- Vix Mctacilla trochila major. 



% He fays of the Salicaria, or ^edge Bird— Avis valde afEnis Sylma, modo 

 aon fexu tantum diftinfta. Fauti. Suec. N" 249, 250. 



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