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resemblance between this and the female Coldfinch,* so much as 

 make one almost doubt their not being the same. It is supposed 

 to make its way to Africa id autumn, and there pass the winter, and 

 we are told, that in the neighbourhood of Alexandria, from the month 

 of August, immense numbers of Figpeckers are seen during their 

 passage, which lasts three months, during which the Egyptians 

 catch them in great quantities, by smearing birdlime on the trees 

 and bushes on which they settle.f 



73.— FIG-EATER WARBLER. 



Sylvia nsevia, Ind. Orn. ii. 517. Gm. Lin. i. 957. 



Curruca naevia, Bris. iii. 389. Id. 8vo. i. 418. 



Boarina, Will. 158. 171. 6. Id. Engl. p. 216. ch. v. & 237. No. C. 



Muscicapa prima Aldrovandi, Raii, 77. 7. Boavina. 



La Fauvette tachetee, Buf. v. 149. 



Bouvier, Salem. Orn. 226. 7. 



Der Feigenesser, Naturf. xvii. 101. 



Fig-eater, Gen.Syn.iv. 433. Albin,'\\\. pi. 26. Shaw's Zool. x. 591. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill reddish brown ; plumage 

 above rufous brown, varied with yellowish and ash-colour; beneath 

 white; breast yellowish, marked with black spots; quills blackish, 

 edged with white ; tail the same, the two middle feathers shorter 

 than the rest ; legs reddish, claws black. 



Inhabits Italy, especially about Bologna, where it is called 

 Boarola, and Boarina ;$ chiefly met with in pastures, where beasts 

 are kept ; it makes the nest about a foot from the ground, on a shrub, 

 or strong plant, and when the young are hatched, the female is most 



* It seems to be full as like to our Pettichaps, insomuch that on shewing one to an 

 Italian, he declared it to be a Beccafico ; but perhaps more than one bird passes under this 

 name, and both in Spain and Italy every small bird is eaten indiscriminately in autumn. 

 M. Temminck assures us, that this is no other' than a young Coldfinch Flycatcher. 



f Sonnini's Trav. iii. p. 318. J Is persequendo Boves, vulgo Boarolam, seu 



Boarinam nuncupantur. — Aldrov. 



