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el fomewhat-lef$ than two inches: the plumage above is Erownifh 
green, the head darkeft, and moft. inclined to green towards the 
tail: over the eyes’ a dufky yellowifh ftreak > beneath, the body 
dufky white, tinged lightly on. the fides of the-neck and breaft with 
red: knees greenih grey.: tail even at the end; and the quills dufky,. 
with pale edzes: legs: pale. 
The female differs very little from the mae, except in being paler. 
but in the young birds, the. tinge of green is more confpicuous than 
in the adult,.and in this ftate fomewhat approaches in colour to the- 
Wood Wren, which is above an inch longer, befides differing in other 
particulars, ‘Ehis fometimes-appears-in- the laft week-in March, but 
more frequently. not till the firft-in 4pri/; and this circumftance alone 
will diftinguith both,this and the Leffer Pettichaps from the Wood Wren, 
* which feldom appears. before the end of the. laft-named month. . - 
Sylvia Sylviella, Ind. Graz. ii. p. 51%. 24. 
Motacilla longiroftra, Der Spifskopf. Naturf. 27. S. 43. 22 
Leffer White-throat, Gen. Syz. Sup. p, 185. pl. 113. 
HIS is fufficiently defcribed in our former. Supplement, fo as 
to make any thing further on that head unneceflary. Mr. Beck- 
fein makes the length of its bill, a charaéteriftic diftinction, and it. 
certainly is a trifle more fo in proportion. than in the Reed Wren, 
Willow Wren, or Lefer Pettichaps ; but it appears even greater than 
it really is, fromthe face itfelf being a trifle prolonged. It both 
hops and flies well, and may be obferved at times fitting with its bill 
upright, continually opening and fhutting it, and harfhly: uttering the 
words aet/ch atch*.. I muft not omit, that a few years fince I re= 
ceived this very bird from Sweden, under the name of Motacilla Cur-- 
vaca; but whether itis-the fame or not with what goes by the name 
of Kruka in that country, and is defcribed under that headin. the. 
* Beckfiein. . 
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