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Mr. Lightfoot’s Account of 
luteo-fulvo, cauda fubcuneata fufca, plands Iuteo*» 
virefcentibus. 
In regard to fyuonyms, the only author I can find who ears 
be fufpeded of having noticed this bird is Sepp, who, in a late 
fplendid work, in the Dutch language, intituled, Nederlandfche 
V ogelen ffol. chart. max.) p. ioi. has defcribed and figured a bird, 
■under the name of Tardus anindinaceus minimus , called in Hol- 
land Karrakietje, which in many refpecfs agrees with our bird; 
but as the colour of the wings in that figure is made a reddifb 
brown, inftead of an olive-brown, and the tawny- white Lora 
(a mod: effential character to cliftinguifti the fpecies) are not at 
all exprefled ; and the eggs are made to be of a pale-blufh colour 
with dark fpots, inftead of a dirty-white with olive fpots ; i 
cannot pronounce for certain, that the bird there intended by 
that writer is the fame which we have now defcribed ; though, 
if fame allowance be made for ill- colouring and other omif- 
ftons, it may poftibly have been defigned for the fame fpecies. 
As we have already a bird, called in Englifh the Willow - 
wren ; ours, being nearly of the fame fize and fhape, as well’ as- 
the fame genus, may, from its haunts, not improperly be 
denominated the Reed-wren. 
It frequents the banks of the river Coin near Uxbridge, as 
far as from Harefield-Moor down to Iver, about the fpace of 
five miles, and very probably moft other parts of the fame 
river, though not as yet obferved. 
It is alfo certainly found in the neighbourhood of Dartford 
in Kent, from whence a neft and eggs were communicated by 
the ingenious Mr. Latham of that place, but without know- 
ledge of the bird to which they belonged fo that there is 
little doubt but that it may be found in many parts of the 
kingdom. 
Its 
