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'43- Motacilla troglodytes, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 337. N° 46. — Faun. Suec. N° 26s.— 



*. WREN. Scq ^ ana j No 239t _x,am. el. 378. 20.— 5r»a. p. 72. N° 284— 



Muller, p. 33. p. 279. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 175. — Frifcb. t. 24. — Olin. us. 

 pi. in p. 6. 

 Le Roitelet, 5;//. o-h. iii. p. 425. N° 24. — PI. enl. 651. N° 2. 

 Le Troglodyte, Buf. oif. v. p. 352. pi. 1. 



The Wien, Rait Syn. p. 80. A. 11. — Will. on. p. 229. pi. 42. — Albin. L 

 pi. 53. B.— Br. Zool. i. N° 154.— Aril. Zool. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Descriftion. '"PHIS is a very fmall fpecies, in length only three inches 

 three quarters, though I have feen fome which meafured 

 four inches. Bill very (lender, and dufky brown: irides hazel: 

 the head, neck, and back, are of a reddifh brown : the lad, as 

 well as the wing coverts and tail, crofTed with obfcure blackifh 

 lines : cheeks marked with dirty white mixed with rufous : over 

 each eye a pale reddifh white ftreak : the under parts, as far as 

 the bread, of this laft colour ; the reft more inclined to brown, 

 crcffed with brown lines : quills barred alternate with reddifh, 

 and black : legs pale brown. 

 Place and The neft is of a curious conftrudtion, infhape almoft oval, and 



has only one fmall entrance : it is chiefly compofed of mqfs, well 

 lined within with feathers. In this the female lays from ten to 

 fixteen, or even eighteen eggs, which are almoft white, with 

 reddifh markings at the large end. Builds twice in a year, in 

 Jpril and June. The neft is frequently found in fome corner of 

 an outhoufe, ftack of wood, hole in a wall, or fuch like, if 

 near habitations ; but, in the woods, often in a bufh near the 

 ground, flump of a tree, or on the ground itfelf. 



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