Notwithflanding the haunts of this fpecies are ufually 
sconfined to the neighbourhood of large trees, we have found 
It under fuch circumftances as to be induced to believe it fome- 
times breeds on extenfive commons among furze ; we fhot 
one which proved a female, from off a little clump of furze, 
which had nearly loft all the breaft feathers through incubating; 
almoft immediately after we fprung the rnale, who continued 
to fly round us, and fcreamed for a great length of time while 
we were fearching after the neft, which we were not fo for- 
tunate as to find, but from the continued anxiety difplayed by 
the male we have no doufet was near the fpot, 
Few birds are more likely to efcape general notice than the 
prefent, as when at reft it is l^ardly to be difcerned from the 
tree whereon it is fixed, by reafon of its colours approxima- 
ting fo nearly with the furrounding objedls, 
It ufually precedes the cuckoo a week or ten days, and is 
known (from this circumftance) in parts by the name of 
Cuckoo's mate, befides which it is called Snake-Bird, Long- 
Tongue, pmmet-Huntpr, and fJilling-Bird, 
