﻿WARBLER. 



43t 



This bird is common in England, and frequents places where 

 reeds and fedges grow, among which it is faid to make the neft, 

 though it has been known to do this on the loweft branches of 

 trees *. The neft is compofed of ftraw and dried fibres of 

 plants, lined' with hair, The eggs five in number, of a dirty 

 white, marbled with brown. 



It is obferved to imitate the note of the Swallow, Sky-lark 3 

 Houfe Sparrow, and other birds, in a pleafing but hurrying man- 

 ner, and fings all night f . Whether it leaves us in the winter is 

 not quite certain. ' 



Place and 

 Manners. 



La Fauvette rouffe, Brif. on. iii. p. 387. N° 8. — Buf. cif. v. p. 



PL enl. 581. 1. 

 Kleinfte gras-mucke, Fri/cb. t. 24. 



146.— 



HP HIS is lefs than the laft, being not four inches three 

 quarters in length %. The bill is grey brown : the upper 

 parts of the body are rufous grey : under parts pale rufous || : 

 on each fide of the head a longitudinal ftreak of the fame, beneath 

 the eyes : quills rufous grey, edged with pale rufous : tail the 

 fame § : legs brown. 



This bird is not feen in England; but in France and Germany it 

 frequents gardens, making the neft in fome low bufh or plant, 

 lined with hair. It lays five eggs, which are of a greenifh 

 white, fpotted with a dark colour. 



* Hiji. des oif. f Br. Zool. 



I In the PL enl. it is at leaft five inches three quarters. 



|| Sometimes white. 



§ In the PL enl. the outer tail feather is white, and the next to it tipped 

 with white : the legs yellow, I fufpect this not to be the bird above-defcribed, 

 though quoted by Buffer 



Motacilla 



2"2, 



RUFOUS W. 



Description. 



Place and' 



Manners. 



