﻿WARBLER. 



The food, for the moft part,, is Caterpillars. 



Scopoli obferves, that it is a reftlefs, noify bird, imitating the- 

 notes of other birds j and' is frequent in the gardens at Pifa'xn 

 fummer, where it is called Bianchetto.. 



7- Motacilla Schsnobanus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 329. N° 4. — Faun. Suec. N° 246. — 



Scop. ann. i. N° 235:.— Faun. Arab. p. 6. N° 17. 



Motacilla Yvica, HaJ/ilq.Foy. p. 286. N ' 50. 



La Fauvette de bcis, ou la Rouflette, Br if. orn. iii. p. 393. N° 11.. — Buf. oif. 

 v. p. 139. — Raii Syn. p. 80. N° I. 



Small Nightingale, Will. orn. p. 237-. 



Description, g \ 2 ;E of the Pettichaps . The bill blackifh : the head, hind 

 part of the neck, breaft, back, rump, wing and tail coverts, 

 brown and rufous ; viz. each feather brown, bordered with ru- 

 fous : throat, fore part of the neck, belly, fides, thighs, and vent,, 

 inclined to rufous :. quills brown, edged with rufous : tail wholly 

 brown : legs whitifh. 



This is found both in France and Italy, and is likewife an in- 

 habitant of Sweden. "Whether it migrates in the laft, we are not 

 told j but it is known to winter in the fouth of France, changing 

 its place, like the Whin Chat in England. 



It builds, the neft. in the woods, which is chiefly compofed of 

 mofs and wool;, and lays four or five fky-blue eggs. 



The young are readily brought up; and the bird in general 

 very tame and familiar. Its fong is not unpleafant; and befides., , 

 treating us- with it during the winter feafon. 



Syjvia 



