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arrival of the two fexes than in any other bird, being often a week 
or ten days between. Firft obferved the very end of April: are 
ofteneft feen in coppice woods of oak or -beech,- about eighteen or 
twenty years growth; on the top of the moft lofty of which, it may 
be found uttering a kind of fibilous note, during which it expands 
the wings, and moving them in a fhivering or fluttering manner. 
Some have compared the note to that of the Bunting, but more fhrill; 
it has alfo-other kinds of notes, which may be compared to that of the 
Maro Titmouje, or the fpring note of the Nuthatch. .The place of 
refidence will ever detect it, as it is not to be met with in hedges or 
bufhes, but in woods only. It makes the neft on the ground, be- 
neath the fhade of trees, conftructing it of dry grafs, dead leaves, and 
mofs, lined with finer grafs, and a few long hairs; in fhape oval; 
the entrance near the top, like thofe of the Yellow Wren and Petti- 
shaps, but materially different, as thofe birds line the neft with feathers. 
The eggs weigh from eighteen to twenty-two grains, are white, 
fprinkled all over with’ ruft=coloured fpots, and in fome the markings 
are confluent *. ‘They are generally fix or feven in number; and the 
young are hatched in thirteen days f. 
Sylvia Trochilus, Iud.’Orz. ii. p.550. 1556 
Afilus, Small Yellow Bird, Radi Syz. p. 80. A. 10. 
Afilus, Le Pouillot, ou Chantre, Brz/s. ili. 479. 45- 
Der Weidenzeifig, Naturforfch. 27. S. 54. 6. 
Maiseape Cantatrix, Green Wren, Bartram. Cae p: 283. 
Yellow Wren, Gen. we iv. Pe 512. 147. 
THI S, if we except the Gold- crofted Wren, is the {malleft of our 
European birds: feldom meafures more than four inches and a 
guarter in length, and the breadth fix inches and three quarters: the 
* fn Lin. Ti ran iv. tab. 2. f 1. is s the reprefentation of it. 
4 Mr. Beck/tein. 
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