R I O L E. 



437. 



Icterus minor nidum fufpendens, Watchy Picket, Spaniftv Nightingale, 

 American Hang-neft, Raii Syn. p. 184. — Sloan. Jam. p. 300. N° \j* 

 pi. 258. f. 3; 



HANG-NEST. 

 O. 



TX/ITH juft reafon it may be doubted whether the Watchy 

 Picket of Sloane be the fame bird as the laft, though Briffon 

 Has joined it to his fynonyms; Ihave therefore thought right- 

 to feparate them, giving -Sltmneh own defcription. 



The bill, he fays, is white, furrounded by a black line : crown 

 of the head, neck, back, and tail, reddifh brown : wings deeper, 

 intermixed with white, and a black line on the middle of the 

 neck i the fides of which, the breaft, and belly, is of a feuillemot- 

 colour. 



A variety of this had the back more yellow : the breaft and I 

 belly of a bright yellow : and the bill black. This, he obferves, 

 is common in the woods, and fings not unpleafantly ; makes its 

 neft of ftalks, or inward hairs of old. man's beard, which is like 

 horfe-hair, on high trees. Such nefts are not unfrequently feen. 

 on the further twigs of high trees, when the leaves are fallen off. 

 which hide them. The two oppofite methods of conftrufting, as 

 well as placing,,the neft, cannot furely belong to one bird. 



Description.; 



L'e Carouge de Cayenne, PI.enl.607. fvi. 



Baftard Baltimore female, Cat. Car. pi. 49. lokvefi figure. 



YENGTH fix. inches. Bill eight lines; and blue black: the 



head, neck, .breaft, and to the middle of the back, are black: 



the lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, the 



belly* 



24. 



H CHESTNUT 



AND BLACK* 



O. 



DSSCRI*TI03T« 



