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Wings above dun, underneath alio of the lame colour, but paler. The Rump white. 

 The Tail ("which confifts of twelve feathers ) is three inches long, and of the fame 

 colour with the Wings. The Legs and Feet * Spadkeous : The Claws long and * of th ? c °- 

 flender. > # P a i m tre e 



Moreover, the Salicaria of Gejner is either the fame with this, of certainly near branch. 

 akin to it. It is, faith he, a very fmall bird, of colour partly dusky, as on the upper J r h wiiiow-'' 

 fide 3 partly yellowiih, as on the nether 5 and partly whitifli, as on the fides, and near bird of Gifntr, 

 the Neck, having reddifh Legs. It feeds upon Flies, Spiders, and other Infe&s that 

 it finds among Willows, which that it may enjoy alone, it drives away other fmall 

 Birds. It hath a (lender, (freight Bill. 



Aldrovandm defcribes another bird by the name of his firft Mufiicapa, or Flie- The Boarinx 

 catcher, which he faith from following and frequenting Kine, the Bolognefe call Boa<- of AUroJ ' 

 rola, or Boarina. It. is is a long-bodied bird, and hath a pretty long Bill, of a dusky 

 reddifh colour. The Head and whole Back are of a colour mixt of * plumbeous, ^ r . Iead c °" 

 cinereous, and yellowiih. The Breaftand all the belly white, but the Bread (potted 

 with black. The Wings are particoloured^ of black, yellowiih, and white : The Tail 

 long, black, and white on the fides : The Legs and Feet black. 



Chap. VI. 



J fmall bird without name like to the Stopparola of Aldrovand, perchance the 

 Moucherolle of Bellonius. 



FOr bignefs and colour it is very like to a Hen-Sparrow , but of a longer and (ten- 

 derer body. The Head, Neck, Back, and generally the whole upper fide is of 

 a dark cinereous or Moufe-dun : Yet the Wings and Tail darker than the mid- 

 dle of the Back : And on the top of the Head,to one who heedf ully views it, appear 

 certain black fpots. All the nether fide is white : But the (hafts of the feathers in the 

 Bread are black, and the Throat and Sides fbmewhat red. The Tail is two inches and 

 a quarter long, all dusky, as are aifo the greater quil-feathers of the Wings, for the 

 edges of the interiour are of a yellowiih white. The outmoft feather of the Wing 

 is very (hort and little. [In fome birds of this kind the tips of the interiour fea- 

 thers of the fecond row, as al(b of the baftard-wing feathers are of a yellowiih 

 white. 3 



The Bill is ftreight, black, broad, and deprefied, or flat near the Head. The up- 

 per Chap rifes up in an angle or ridge all along the middle, ( whence the Bill feems to 

 be triangular ) and is a little longer than the nether, and (harp-pointed. The mouth 

 gapes wide 3 and is yellow withinfide. The Tongue cloven with a deep incifion, 

 rough on the fides. The Legs (hort and black : The Feet alfo fmall and (hort. The 

 outer toe below (ticks faft to the middle one, as in the reft of this kind. 



The Gall is yellow ; The Tefticles fmall and black. In the Gizzard we found Bees, 

 Flies, and other Infects. In fummer-time it frequents gardens with us in England. In the 

 young birds of this kind the Back is fpotted with black and white. 



.This bird differs from the White-throaty in that its Tail is all of one colour 5 from 

 the Beccafigo in the colour of its body, being of a dusky cinereous or Moufe-dun, 

 whereas that is paler coloured, and tinctured with greeny from both, in magnitude 

 and in the figure of its Bill, which ( as we faid before ) is broad, deprefied, and 

 triangular. 



We have before in the Chapter of Larks prefented the Reader with the defecti- 

 ons of the Stopparola and Stopparola ftmilis of Aldrovand. As for the Moucherolle, 

 Bellonius defcribes it thus : 



It is of the bignefs of the * Curruca, lives in woods, and feeds chiefly upon flies, * Hedg?- 

 whence alfo it is called * Moucherolle ( Mouche in French (ignifying a fly.) It is fo like a pajriov 

 Sparrow, that unlefs by its conditions while it is living, and its Bill when dead ^it can 

 hardly be diftinguifhed from it. It hath ftrong legs and feet : The feet alfo black. 

 The Bill is (lender and oblong, like a Robin-red-breafis : The Tail alfo long. In brief it 

 is in all points like to the fmall Field-Sparrow that haunts Oaks, excepting the Bill, and 

 its pleafant note. It lies much in Woods and Thickets, flying and hiding it felf there. 

 This defer iption of Bellonius feems rather to agree to our Hedg-Sparrow than to the 

 bird deferibed in this Chapter. 



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