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14 Mr, Lightfoot’s Account of 
fufpended or fattened on, like a hammock, between three or 
four .ftai-ks of reeds, below the. panicles of flowers, in fuch a 
manner that the ftalks run through the fittes of the nefts at 
nearly equal diftances ; or, to Apeak more properly , 5 the nett 
is tied oh to the reeds with dead gr a fs, and fometimes (as being 
more eligible when it can be had) even with thread 2.i\& pack- 
thread, emulating the work of a fempftrefs, as was the cafe of 
the nett exhibited in the drawing. The bird, , however, though 
generally, does not always confine her building to the fupport 
of reeds ; fometimes fhe fixes it on to the branches’ of the 
Water-dock ; and, in one inftance only (that here delineated),' 
it was found fattened to the trifurcated branch of a Syrlf^a 
bulh, or Philadeiph'us , growing in a garden hedge by the river 
fide. • 
• She lays commonly four eggs; the ground colour a dirty 
white, {famed all over with dull olive-coloured fpots, but 
chiefly at the greater end, where are generally feen two or 
three fmall irregular black fcratches ; but thefe are fometimes 
fcarcely vifible. 
I mutt not omit, that both the nett and eggs which I have 
now defcribed, whether defigned for the fame or not, are well 
exp retted by Sepp, in the work above cited, under the article 
dTurdus Calamoxenui , or Rietvmck , .p. 97. ; but as the bird there 
reprefented is evidently the Motacilla Sylvia , Lin. or common 
. White-throat .(which is known to make a very different nett) s i 
mm inclined to believe, "that the ; author, fly mi flake, placed a 
bird and peft in the fame plate which do not belong to each 
• other. 
1 have reafon to think, that the bird I have been charac- 
terizing is a bird of migration ; for the inhabitants on the fides 
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