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water, compofed of dried fibres and mofs, lined with hair, fea- 

 thers, or wool, within. The eggs are from fix to eight in 

 number, of a dirty white, marked with yellow fpots. 



This is a very elegant fpecies, and found on the continent in 

 various parts, and feems more hardy than the others. Linnaus 

 fays it is gregarious, but with us is feen only fingle, except in 

 pairing time. It is called at Bologna by the names of Boarola, or 

 Boarina. It is alfo found at Senegal *. 



La Bergeronette de Java, Brif. em. iii. p. 

 Buf. oif. v. p. 272. 



474. N° 42. pi. 25. f. 2. — 



T E N G T H feven inches. Bill grey : the head, upper parts 

 of the body, and upper tail coverts, olive yellow : throat 

 and neck grey : reft of the under parts yellow, deepeft towards 

 the vent : greater wing coverts brown : quills the fame, but the 

 fecondaries are white half way from the bafe j the third quill 

 from the body as long as the greater ones : the fix middle tail 

 feathers are blackifh ; the two next white within, and at the tip, 

 the outer edge blackifh ; the outer one white, except for two- 

 thirds down the fhaft, where it is blackifh : legs grey. 

 Inhabits the ifland of Java. 



4- 



Var. A. 



JAVAN W. 



Description* 



Place. 



La Bergeronette grife des hides. Son. Foy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 207. 



>Tp H E bill of this bird is pale rufous : irides yellow : the 



head, hind part of the neck, back, and rump* are dirty 



greenifh grey : the throat, breaft, and belly, very light yellow : 



* Jdan/on.—Ke calls it the Ortolan of that country. He fays that they are 

 cne lump of fat, and the tafte excellent. 



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INDIAN W. 

 Description. 



