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DeEscRIP. 
WHITE-THROAT. Crass HU. 
in low bufhes near the ground, making its neft 
externally of the tender ftalks of herbs and dry 
{traw; the middle part of fine bents and foft grafs, 
the infide of hair. It lays five egos of a whitifh 
ereen color, fprinkled with black fpots*. Its note 
is continually repeated, and often attended with 
odd gefticulations of the wings: is harfh and dif- 
pleafing: is a fhy and wild bird, avoiding the 
haunt of man; feems of a pugnatious difpofition, 
finging with an erected creft, and in attitudes of 
defiance. 
The head of this bird is of a brownith afh color, 
the throat white: the breaft and belly white tinged 
with red; (in the female wholly white:) the back 
inclines to red: the leffer coverts of the wings 
are of a pale brown; the greater dufky, edged with 
tawny brown; the quil-feathers dufky, edged with 
reddifh brown; the tail the fame, except the up- 
per part of the interior fide and whole exterior fide 
of the outmoft feather, which are white: the legs 
are of a yellowifh brown. 
* Wil. orn. 
W. WITH 
