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her to be a young bird; she then darted directly to 
the earth and ran, but when deceived I sought her on 
the ground she had very expertly disappeared, and I 
now found the nest to contain four roundish eggs, 
white, inclining to flesh-colour, variegated, more par- 
ticularly at the great end, with pale purplish points of 
various sizes, interspersed with other large spots of 
brown and blackish. The nest was formed of circularly 
entwined flne stripes of the inner bark of the juniper, 
and the tough white fibrous bark of some other plant, 
bedded with soft feathers of the Robin, and lined with 
a few horse-hairs and some slender tops of bentgrass, 
( Agrostis’ ) 
My friend describes the notes of this species as 
follows: — ‘This simple, rather drawling, and somewhat 
plaintive song, uttered at short intervals, resembles the 
syllables ‘te de territica,’ sometimes ‘tederisca,’ pro- 
nounced pretty loud and slow, and the tones proceeding 
from high to low.’ These notes I am well acquainted 
with, but none can describe the songs of our different 
species like Nuttall.” 
My figure is taken from Audubon’s large folio work, 
the drawing being kindly executed for me by Mr. 
Sinclair, of Glasgow, to whom I shall also on another 
occasion have to express my obligations. 
Figured also by Wilson and Nuttall. 
