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back tinged with yellow. The loweft order of 
leffer coverts, and the great coverts brown: the 
firft tipt with white; the laft both tipt and edged — 
with the fame color. The quil feathers, and fe- 
condaries dufky ; but the lower part of the inner 
webs white. The inner coverts of the wings 
white. Tail brown; the three outmoft feathers tipt 
with white. Cheeks and throat mottled with brown 
and white: breaft and belly whitifh yellow, marked 
with large fpots of black: the legs yellow. 
Thefe birds build their nefts in bufhes, or 
on the fide of fome tree, generally an afh, and 
Jay four or five eggs: their note of anger or 
fear is very harfh, between a chatter and fkreek ; 
from whence fome of its Engl/h names; its 
fong though is very fine, which it begins, 
fitting on the fummit of a high tree, very ear- 
ly in the fpring, often with the new year, in 
blowing fhowery weather, which makes the in- 
habitants of Hampfhire to call it the Storm-cock. 
It feeds on infects, holly and miffeltoe berries, 
which are the food of all the thrufh kind: in fevere 
fhowy weather, when there is a failure of their 
ufual diet, they are obferved to fcratch out of the 
banks of hedges, the root of Arum, or the cuckoo 
pint: this is remarkably warm and pungent, and 
a provifion fuitable to the feafon. 
This bird migrates into Burgundy in the months 
of Ofober and November: in Great- Britain, con- 
tinues the whole year, The Wel call this bird 
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