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ORD. III. GEN. XI. WARBLER. 



SPE. XI. DARTFORD WARBLER. 



PI. 108. 



This bird is fcarcely bigger than the wren, though it meafures five inches in 

 confequence of the length of its tail. The bill is black with a whitifh bafe : 

 the eyes red ; eyelids deep crimfon : the upper part of the head, neck, and 

 body, reddifh brown : the throat, breaft, and belly, of a deep ruddy ruft colour : 

 the middle of the belly white, and the throat marked with white fpots : the 

 quill feathers edged with white : the baftard wing white : the tail brown, 

 the outer web of each extreme feather white : the legs yellow. 



This is not a very common fpecies in England, and only to be met with on 

 the heaths and dry fpots. It feeds on infects, and has much of the action of 

 the common fly-catcher. The neft and egg are not yet known in England, 

 and it is by no means certain whether the bird breed in the fouthern parts of 

 the kingdom or not. 



