Class II. GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 519 



ing the note of the grasshopper, but louder and 

 shriller. It is a most artful bird, will sculk in 

 the middle, and thickest part of the hedge, and 

 will keep running along for a hundred yards to- 

 gether, nor can it be forced out but with the 

 greatest difficulty : it is from this covert that it 

 emits its note, which so much resembles the in- 

 sect, from which it derives its name, as gene- 

 rally to be mistaken for it. In the height of 

 summer it chirps the whole night : its sibilous 

 note is observed to cease about the latter end of 

 July. 



The bill is very slender, of a dusky color; Descrip- 

 the head, and whole upper part of the body is 

 of a greenish brown, spotted with black; the 

 quil feathers dusky r edged with an olive brown ; 

 the tail very long, composed of twelve sharp 

 pointed feathers v the two middlemost are the 

 longest, the others on each side grow gradually 

 shorter. The under side of the body is of a 

 dull yellowish white, darkest about the breast ; 

 the legs are of a dirty white; the hind claw 

 short and rather crooked. 



