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coverts ' the quills have brown edges : outer tail feathers white: 

 Ieo-s black : toes long : hind -toe and claw long and ftout. 



The female, or what is fuppofed fuch, has fewer ftreaks of Female. 

 white on the breaft. 



Inhabits Terra del Fuego. It is apt to vary both in fize and Place. 



length of bill. Met with on the fea-ieach, and is fuppofed to 

 Xiwon Jhell-fijh or fea-worms. 



Le Pitchou de Provence, Buf. oif. v. p. 158. — PI. enl. 655. 1. 



Dartford Warbler, Br. Zool. i. N° 161. pi. 56.—^*?. Zool. 4. DARTFORD 



Lev. Muf. W. 



HpHIS is fcarce bigger than a Wren, but, as the tail is half Description 



the length, meafures above five inches. The bill is black, 

 with a white bafe, and the upper mandible a little curved at the 

 tip : irides red : eyelids deep crimfon : the upper parts of the 

 head, neck, and body, dufky reddifh brown : breaft and belly 

 deep ferruginous ; the middle of the belly white : quills dufky, 

 edged with white : baftard wing white : the exterior web of the 

 outer tail feather white ■-, the reft dufky, and half the length 

 of the bird : legs yellow. 



This is a native of Provence in France, and is found among Place and 

 cabbages, amongft whicLJt fearches for food, living on fmall 

 infects which harbour there ; it alio takes up its nocturnal abode 

 under the fhelter of the leaves. 



It is likewife met with in England. A pair was brought to me 

 killed by a friend on Bexley Heath, near Dartford, April 10, 1773, 

 fitting on a furze-huih. Thefe fed on flies, fpringing from the 

 bufh on fpying one within its reach, and returning to the fame 

 place repeatedly ; in this imitating much the rrianners of our 

 Cinereous Flycatcher. 



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