PLATE XXXIX. 
Tlie Hay Bird 
Is a bird of little fong, and lefs value: we therefore fat it down as an Englidi bird, but of no 
particular properties. It is tender in it's nature, and though it lays five eggs, and brings as many 
young ones, we feldom fee more than a pair together at a time. They frequent folitary woods and 
lanes ; their food is chiefly flies, fpiders, and fmall grubs of all kinds. The neft is built of dried 
grafs, lined with the fame, very flight and loofe. The eggs much refemble the neft in colour. 
They feldom build more than four feet from the ground, and that not very private. 
