mm 



( 16 ) 



ORD. III. GEN. XI. WARBLER. 



SPE. V. LESS PETTY-CHAPS. 



PI. 102. 



Motacilla Hippolais. Lin. Syft. I. p. 330. 

 La petite Fauvette. Brif. Orn. III. p. 374. 



This fpecies is fmaller than the linnet. The bill is fliort, dufky, and black 

 towards the point of the upper mandible : a line of yellow pafies over the eyes : 

 the upper parts of the body are of an olive brown : the quill feathers fomewhat 

 darker, with lighter edges: the under parts of the body filvery white, tinged in 

 fome places with yellow, more particularly on the breaft : legs brown. 



This bird is not uncommon in England, in the fummer. Its neft, which it 

 builds on the ground, under a tuft of grafs, or at the bottom of a buih, is of an 

 arched form, compofed of dry bents, mixed with a little mofs, and lined with 

 feathers. The eggs are generally five in number, of a white colour, fprinkled 

 all over with fmall red fpots, moft at the larger end. It is called the hay-bird 

 in Dorfetfhire, and in Yorkfhire the beam-bird. 



For the egg, fee PI. XXIII. Fig. 4. 



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