Terr ORoU; SAH: 
lowifh, marked with dufky fpots: chin, belly, thighs, and under 
tail-covert, white: legs cinereous. 
This fpecies is common in Philadelphia throughout the fum- 
mer. They build their nefts in the fwamps and thick woods. 
They come in 4pri/, and retire into Carolina in Autumn, where 
they winter. . 
Motacilla aurocapilla, Lin. Syf. i. p. 334. N° 29. 
Le Figuier 4 téte d’or de Penfilvanie, Brif. orn. iii. p. 504. N° 57. 
La Grivelette de St. Domingue, Buf. oi. v. p. 317.—Pl. enl. 398. f. 2. 
Golden-crowned Thruth, Edw. pl. 252.—4ré. Zool, 
Br. Muf. 
IZE of a Hedge Sparrow: length five inches and three 
quarters. Bill brown, with a few weak hairs at the bafe, which 
is flefh-colour: the crown of the head is golden yellow: over 
the eyes a black ftreak, tending to the hind-head: ‘the upper 
parts of the plumage brownifh green: fides of the head, and 
under parts, white, fpotted as far as the belly with black, the 
reft plain: quills and tail deep olive: legs yellowifh brown. 
One of thefe, in the poffeffion of Major Davies, has the top of 
the head buff-yellow: the forehead black, divaricating into two 
ftreaks on each fide of the crown: fides of the head pale, fpotred 
on each fide of the chin in the fhape of whifkers : the under parts 
marked with triangular fpots, except the middle of the belly. 
This fpecimen is fix inches in length, and feems a trifling 
variety. j 
It inhabits Penfylvania and New York in fummer;_ builds 
on the ground ; lays five white eges, fpotted with brown, chiefly 
on the fouth fide of a hill. 
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