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making its neft on the moffy hillocks among the reeds and rujbes*, 
and laying five or fix eggs. The male is perpetually finging 
while the female is fitting: hence has been by fome called the 
Water Nightingale. 
Lev. Muy. 
IZE of the Nightingale: length fix inches and a half. Bill 
pale brown: upper parts of the body pale teftaceous brown ; 
the under dufky white: over the eye a ftreak of the fame: quills 
dufky, edged the colour of the back: rump and tail rufous ; all 
but the two middle feathers have a bar of black near the end, 
which is fartheft from the end on the outer feather; from the 
bar to the tip, three of the outer feathers are white; the fourth 
white on the inner web only ; and next to that the white is want- 
ing: the legs are pale brown. 
This inhabits Gibraltar. 
Turdus plumbeus, Liz. Syff.i. p. 294. N° 12. 
Le Merle cendré d’Amérique, Bri/. orz.ii. p. 288. N° 40.—Pi. el. 560. I. 
Le Tilly, ou la Grive cendrée d’Amérique, Buf. oi. iii. p. 314. 
Red-legged Thrufh, Cate. Car. i. pl. 30.—4r, Zool. 
IZE of the Redwing: length ten inches: weight two ounces 
and a half, Bill, eyelids, and irides, red: palate orange: 
head, and upper parts of the body, deep afh-colour: between the 
bill and eye a black fpot: throat white, fpotted with black ; from 
thence all the under parts are afh-colour, growing almoft white 
towards the vent: quills blackifh, edged with grey: tail cunei- 
* Kramer fays, that it fufpends the neft between three reeds faftened together. 
Vot. Il. F form, 
28. 
Var. A. 
DeEsCRIPTION. 
PLAceE. 
29. 
RED-LEGGED 
THR. 
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