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The Tail hath very black feathers, which yet have white tips } and above alio are 

 covered with white ones. This for its bignefs oughtpther to have been referred to 

 the Thrufh'kixd. 



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A Bird called Coldfihch by the Germans. 



THis Bird was {hot by Mr. Jcffop in the Mountains of the Pea k, in Derbyjhire^ and 

 fent us by him. Its Belly is white j its Breaft of a dusky yellow : The Head 

 and Back of a dusky orgreenilhalh-colour: The covert-feathers of the Tail black* 

 The quil-feathersof the Wings likewife black 3 but from the fifth they are all white 

 toward the bottoms, whence arifes a white fpot or ftroak crofs the Wing, from a nar- 

 row beginning widening by degrees, fo that in the laft feathers it takes up all the ex- 

 teriour Vanes 5 but where it is broader, it is gradually tinctured with yellow. The 

 fecond row of Wing-feathers is black, with whitifh tips : The edges of the reft of the 

 coverts are green. The Tail is two inches and a quarter long. Its outmoft feathers 

 have their exteriour Webs almoft wholly white 3 in the next to them the white part 

 is narrower : All the reft are black, but the middlemoft deeper. 



Its Bill is black, comprefied, and almoft triangular. The Tongue cloven and rough: 

 The Irides of the Eyes of a hazel-colour. The Feet black 5 The outmoft Toe 

 joynedto the middlemoft, as in other fmall birds. TheTefticles fmall and round. In 

 the Stomach we found Infects. 

 Inu of til* "^is excellent perfon fent us alfo out of the Peak^ of Derbyfiire the third Beccafigo 

 drovand. * of Aldrovand, which I fuppofe differs only in age or Sex from the precedent. The 

 Throat, Breaft, and Belly are much whiter than in that. All the exteriour Webs of 

 the outmoft feathers of the Tail are white, of thofe next to them the lower halt 

 This hath a great white fpot in each Wing, altogether like the precedent : Abovethe 

 Bill alfo it hath a white fpot : The Back elfe is cokrblack. In its faftiion, bignefs, Bill, 

 and Tail it agrees with the Coldfinch. 



Chap. XVI. 



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The White-throat, An Spipola prima JldroV . e 



THe body of this Bird feems to be fomething longer than that of the Beccafigo 

 before defcribed 5 but of almoft the feme magnitude. From the tip of the 

 Bill to the end of theTail, or of the Feet, ( for they are equally extended) 

 it hath fix inches and a quarter of length : Between the extreme points of the Wings 

 fpread eight and an half of breadth. The .upper Bill is black, the lower white. The 

 Tongue flit with a deep incifion. The Mouth within yellow : The hides of the 

 Eyes hazel-coloured. The Feet are of a dusky yellow or Amber-colour : The back- 

 toe great 3 the exteriour foretoes equal, andlefs than in other fmall birds, joyned at 

 bottom to the middlemoft, theinteriour by an intervening membrane, which we have 

 not obferved in other Birds of this kind. The upper furface of the body from red 

 inclines to an afh-colour. The Head more cinereous : The Chin white,the reft of the 

 Throat white, with a tincture of red. The Breaft alfo and lower Belly are fomething 

 red. [ In the Hen the Breaft is white, without any mixture of red . ] 



The outmoft edge of the firft or outmoft quil-feather is white : The exteriour 

 edges of thofe next the body are red. The extreme feathers of the Tail on each fide 

 have all their exteriour Webs, and half their interiour white : Of the next to thefe 

 the tips only are white. All the reft are black,only the extreme borders or edges,efpe- 

 cially of the two middlemoft, incline to cinereous. 



It frequents Gardens, and feeds upon Beetles, Flies, and other Infers: Creeping 

 and hopping up and down in bufhes, like the Hedg-Sparroro. It builds alfo in bufhes 

 not far from the ground. The outer part of the Neil: is made of the tender ftalks of 

 herbs and dry ftraws 3 the middlemoft of fine bents and foft grafs 3 the inner, on 

 which the Eggs lie, of horfe-hair, or other longhair. It lays about five Eggs, ob- 

 long, of a dusky colour, mingled of white and green, beiprinkled over with black 



fpecks. . 



This 



