﻿4 i6 WARBLER. 



The eggs five in number ; of a pale reddifh brown, mottled 

 with a deeper colour, and fprinkled with a few dark foots. 



The male takes turn with the female during incubation ; and 

 the young very early leap out of the neft, efpecially if any one 

 approaches it, and forfake it for ever. 



The food is not confined to infecls, as it will, in defe£t of them, 

 eat the fruits of Spurge Laurel, Service, and Ivy. It feems to be 

 even fond of the laft, as they much frequent fuch trees as are 

 overgrown with it ; and I have found more than once the berries 

 of ivy in their ftomach, at a time when there has been plenty of 

 infefts of all kinds. I once alfo knew a pair of thefe build in an 

 old ivy-tree, pretty high from the ground. 



The fong is much efteemed, and in many things almoft equal- 

 ling the Nightingale itfelf ; fcarcely deficient, except in the de- 

 lightful variety of note of the laft-named bird. Hence by many 

 has been named the Mock Nightingale. 



Of this there are two varieties. 



J. La Fauvettea tete noire, Brif. em. Hi. p. 383. 



^ AR * "* Ficedula varia, Aldr. av. ii. p. 759. 



Description. '"THIS differs from the other, in being wholly variegated with 

 white and black only. 



r. La petite Columbade, Bu/.oi/.v. p. 131. 



Var. B. 



Description. f T , HIS is fomewhat bigger: has the upper parts of a very 



deep and almoft blackifh colour; the throat white; and the 



fides grey. 



This is found in Provence, where it frequents the woods. 



5 Fayvette 



