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or feathers. The eggs are dufky white., marked with reddifli 

 fpots, and are five in number. Its note is trifling, fcarcely more 

 than twit, twit, which it utters when running up and down the 

 branches of trees in fearch of infects, on which it feeds; but it 

 is faid that during incubation the male has a fong, far from un- 

 pleafing, and is foft though weak. 



Motacilla acredula, Lin. Sjjl. i. p. 338. N° 49. (3. 147. 



Le Figuier de la Caroline, Brif. orn. iii. p. 486. N" 48. Var - A * 



brun & jaune, Buf. oif. v. p. 295. 



Oenanthe fufco-lutea minor, Rati Syn. p. 186. N° 39. — Sloan. Jam. ii. 



p. 310. N° 46. 

 Yellow Titmoufe, Catejb. Car, i. pi, 63. 



• Wren, Ed<w. pi. 278. f. 2. 

 Scotch Wren, Br. Zool. i. p. 379 i * 



Br. Muf. 



^p HIS feems to be a mere variety, and differs in being rather Description. 



inclined to brown than green on the upper, and more yel- 

 low on the under parts. 



This is found in Jamaica, Carolina, and other parts of America. - Place, 

 Shane obferves, that at the firft place it feeds on Cimices, fmall 

 Beetles-, and fuch-iike. Moft plenty about the town of Saint 

 J ago de la Vega. 



Brijfon's bird feems rather bigger j the upper parts olive 

 green; the under yellow: and tht female lefs bright. It is faid 

 to be found both at Jamaica and Carolina in fummer. It feems 

 a mere variety, if not the fame bird. 



* This bird was given to me by E. S. Frafor, Efq; who informed me that it 

 was mot in the Highlands of Scotland, 



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