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WARBLER. 



parts, greenifh afh-colour : quills and tail moufe-colour,with greenifh 

 edges and black fhafts : under wing coverts yellow : belly fdvery 

 white : the bread darker, and tinged with yellow ; legs blueifh or 

 lead-coloured. 

 Place anb This fpecies is frequent in feveral parts of England, and makes a 



Manners. ne ft f an arched form, compofed of dry bents, mixed with a little 

 mofs, and thickly lined with feathers : it is placed on the ground 

 under a tuft of grafs, or at the bottom of a bum. The eggs are 

 five in number, white, fprinkled all over with fmall red fpots, mod 

 fo at the largelt end. In Dorfetjhire it is known by the name of Hay - 

 bird*. In Torkjhire it is called the Beam-bird f. 



4- La petit Fauvette, Brif, orn. iii. p. 374. N°3. 



PASSERINE W. Pafferinette, Buf. oif. v. p. 123.— PL ml. 579. f. 2. 



Borin, Aldr. av. ii. p. 733. t. in p. 734. — Johnji. aw. t. 44. — Raii Syn. p. 81. 

 N° 10. — Will. orn. p. 2i6. 



Description. npHIS is lefs than the laft, being only five inches and a quarter 



in length. The bill is (lender and fharp, and of a brown colour : 



irides red brown : the upper parts of the body pale afh-colour J ; the 



under parts of a greyifh white; the fides inclining to brown ; over 



the eye a fmall whitifh ftreak : quills and tail dufky : legs lead-colour. 



Place and This inhabits various parts of Europe, but is not in England. It 



Manners. j s f ounc ] j n p r0 vence, in France, where it is called Pafferinette ; by 



the people of Bologna, Chivin ; at Marfeilles, Becajigulo ; and Borin 



by the Genoefe. 



It makes the neft on fome low bufh, near the ground ; fuch as a 

 goofeberry-bufh. It is compofed of dry herbs, largeft on theoutfide, 

 and finer within. 



The eggs are four in number, of a dirty white, fpotted with green 

 of two colours ; moft fo about the large end. 



It has no other note than a chirp or two, which it repeats when 

 hopping from one fhrub to another. 



. * For the above account I am indebted to the Rev. Mr. Lightfoot. The bird, neft, 

 and eggs, are in the collection of the Duchefs Dowager of Portland, at Bulflrode. 



t Br. Zool. 



X Wilhgbby fays, the rump is white ; but neither Buffon nor BriJJin mention this 

 circumftance. 



Motacilla 



