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» Albin {ays it fings like a grafhopper, and frequents woods and foli« 
tary places, fitting on the tops of oaks. 
Pennant obferves, that the breaft, belly, and thighs, vary in colour 
in different birds; in fome thofe parts are of a bright yellow, in others 
they fade almoft into white. The legs alfo appear to admit of varia- 
tion, thofe of our fpecimens are yellowifh in both fexes, A/bin de- 
{cribes thofe of his male fpecimen to be pale amber colour, and thofe 
of the hen to be black. 
| Latham, in his Gen. Syn. has given a defcription of four other 
birds, which he confiders only as varieties of the Moraciita 
Trocuitus. Among thofe are included the GREATER NON-CRESTED 
Recuus of Willughby, and the Moracitta Acreputa of Lin- 
neus. his latter bird appears in the Briti/b Zoology of Pennant as 
a new fpecies, (the Scotch W ren;) it has been alfo confidered as a 
diftin& kind in the writings of fome, and the fynonymas of others, 
as Briffon, Buffon, Ray, Sloane, Catefby, and Edwards, but as it dif- 
fered from our fpecies only in the colour of the upper parts, inclining 
more to brown than to green, and the lower parts more to yellow, 
Mr. Latham concluded it was only a variety. It is a native of Fa- 
maica, Carolina, and America; but one was communicated to Mr. 
Latham by E. 8. Frafer, E{q. who informed him that it was fhot in 
the Highlands of Scotland. 3 | 
