WW AS SR SBies. 464 XR: 
have eleven or -twelve undulated bars of a darker hue acrofs them, 
but in full light, fuch appearance vanifhes: legs one inch long, and 
yellow. 
The Gra/shopper Warblers come to us about the 17th of pri]: they 
frequent commons for the moft part, and are met with there among 
the bufhes and_ furze, but are exceffively fhy, and keep conftantly in 
the middle of the bufh; like others. of the genus, the males arrive 
firft, and are to be feen on the top of the fpray, emitting a kind of 
grinding note, but at fome times has a very agreeable kind of warble ; 
and the male is faid fometimes to entertain its mate with a fone of 
nights, when the weather is mild and favourable., The neft is of an 
elegant f{tructure, and the ege of the fize of the White Throat’s, not 
quite fo round; of a delicate blueifh white, or pale blue, 
This fpecies i is faid to be found in America*. 
Sylvia dartfordienfis, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 517. 31. 
Curruca fepiaria, Gerin. Orn. iv. t. 391. f. 2? 
Dartford Warbler, Gez. Syz. iv. p. 435s 27.—Id. Sup. p. 181 Lge s Birds, 
vol. ii. pl. 106. 
puis fpecies is fuficiently known, or at leaft nothing can be 
added to the defcription of the bird; -but I am indebted to Co- 
lonel Montagu for fome further knowledge of its hiftory and manners. 
This gentleman found it in tolerable plenty among the furze, near 
Penryn, Cornwall. The bird he firft fhot, was the 27th of September 
1796, and proved to be a young one, juft beginning to throw out 
the ferruginous feathers on the breaft; it had loft all the tail feathers 
but three, and the young ones were grown about half an inch: the 
irides were yellowifh, and the orbits dull orange: the baftard wing 
was not white, but the edge of the wing beneath whitifh; from hence 
#* General Davies. 
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