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with the fame: below the ears a dafh of ath colour: throat, neck, 
and upper part of the breaft, dirty white, inclining to dull buff co- 
lonr: lower part of the breaft, belly, and under tail coverts white ; 
beneath the wings buff: legs dufky. When in fine plumage, an ob- 
fcure ftreak of pale or yellowifh colour appears over the evap 
In one of thefe, from Mr. Boys, of Sandwich, obferved the tongue 
to be jagged at the end ; the length was five inches. and three quarters, 
in breadth eight inches and three quarters. This was a female. Co- 
Jonel Montagu met with it in Gloucefterfbire ;- but remarks, that he has 
never feen it in Cornwa/l, notwithftanding he has been long refident 
there. I have met with it in more than one place in Kent, and have 
heard of it in Berk/hire and other parts, but believe it to be no where 
exceedingly common. The males of this fpecies come generally the 
laft week in April, the females a tew days later. It builds in thick 
bufhes or hedges, compofed of dried fibres, fome wool, and a little 
green mofs outwardly ; within fometimes lined with horfe-hair. The 
eggs generally four in number, weighing each thirty-fix grains; 
colour a dirty white, marked with brownifh fpecks, pretty numerous, 
-and running frequently together at the larger end. 
In fong, this bird is little-inferior to the Nightingale, either in me- 
lody or variety. Some of its notes are fweetly and foftly drawn, 
others are quick, lively, loud, and piercing, but reaching the diftant 
ear without inharmonious difcord. 
Mr. Beck/fein thinks the fong to’ be even more varied than that of 
the Nightingale, burfting into various kinds of modulation as it pro- 
ceeds, and at times warbling like the Hou/e Swallow ; and obferves that 
it is found in Sweden and Germany throughout, departing thence the 
latter end of Augu/t. 
Irs general food appears to be infeéts, which it fearches for under 
the leaves, but will frequently come into gardens, when in the neigh- 
bourhood of its haunts, making free with fruits likewife, The young 
yh are 
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