«74 WHITE-THROAT. Clafs II. 



XV. The WHITE-THROAT. 



Wil. orn. 236. Motacilla fylvia? Lin.fyJI. 330. 



Raiifyn. a<v. 77. Kogfnetter, Mefar. Faun. Suec. 



La Mefange cenclree, Parus ci- fp. 250. 



neieus. BnJJ'on a-v. iii. 549. Br. Zool. 104. plate S. f. 4. 



^TpHIS frequents our gardens in the fummer time; 

 ■*■ in the winter it leaves us. It builds in low 

 bufhes near the ground, making its neft externally 

 of the tender ftalks of herbs and dry ftraw ; the mid- 

 dle part of fine bents and foft grafs, the infide of 

 hair. It lays five eggs of a whitifh green color, 

 Defer, fprinkled with black fpots *. The head of this bird 

 is of a brownifh afh-color, the throat white : the 

 bread and belly white tinged with red ; (in the female 

 wholly white:) the back, and coverts of the wings 

 ferruginous : the ouil-feathers dusky, edged with 

 reddifh brown ; the tail the fame *, except the upper 

 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. 



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