Crass II. SE bp Ge 
throughout the winter, excepting during the frofts, 
It makes its neft in a very curious manner; of 
an oval fhape, very deep, with a {mall hole in the 
middle for ingrefs and egrefs : the external material 
is mofs, within it is lined with hair and feathers. 
It lays from ten to eighteen egos; and as often 
brings up as many young; which, as Mr. Ray ob- 
ferves, may be ranked among thofe daily miracles 
that we take no notice of; that it fhould feed 
fuch a number without paffing over one, and that 
too in utter darknefs. | , 
The head and upper part of the body of the 
wren are of a deep reddifh brown : above each eye 
is a ftroke of white: the back, and coverts of 
the wings, and tail, are marked with flender 
tranfverfe black lines: the quil-feathers with bars 
of black and red. The throat is of a yellowifh 
white. The belly and fides croffed with narrow 
dufky and pale reddifh brown lines. The tail is 
_crofied with dufky bars. 
ahi 
Descrre. 
Willow Lark, Br. Zoo/, Il, Paffer arvndinaceus minor. 155. Sepez. 
241. Raii fyn. av. 47. 
Sedge Bird. Br. Zool. IV. Motacilla falicaria. Lin. fy. 
tab. X. 330. Faun, Suec. No. 249. 
Leffer Reed Sparrow. Wi], La Fauvette babillarde. Bri/- 
orn. 144. Son; aV. IIL. 384. 
PN HIS {pecies is of a flender elegant form : the 
bill black: the head brown, marked with 
yp cg dufky 
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