io Lightfoot’s Account of 
\ The male and female have the fame coloured plumage, fa 
that one defcription will ferve'for both. They differ a little in 
fize, but their external appearance is the fame. They are both 
larger than the Petty chaps defcribed by Willoughby ; fmaller 
than the White-throat , and nearly of the fame lize with the 
Willow-wren ; but to be more particular. 
The cock-bird weighed, when juft killed, exactly feven 
pennyweights and nine grains ; the hen fix pennyweights and 
nine grains, or one pennyweight lefs. 
The males meafured, from tip to tip of the extended wings, 
feven inches and a half ; the female fix and three-quarters. 
From the end of the bill to the extremity of the tail, tile, 
cock meafured five inches and a half; the hen only five 
inches. 
The bill in both meafured half an inch, which is longer 
in proportion than in more of this genus. The upper mandi- 
ble is of a dark horn colour, flightly incurved near the extre- 
mity, with a minute indenture on either fide near the point ; 
th q lower is pale red or flefli- coloured, with a fhade of yellow ; 
the infide of the mouth deep orange coloured ; the tip of the 
tongue cloven and ciliated ; the nofirils oval, and deftitute of a 
brifily covering ; but at the bafe of the upper mandible, on 
either fide,, near the angle of the mouth, arife three Ihort W- 
briffre pointing downwards, black at their fummits, white at 
their bafes ; a circumftance common to many others of this 
genus. The iris of the eye is olive-brown; the pupil black. 
The fhort feathers of the orbits or eye-laffies are of a dirty 
white colour. From the corner of each eye to the noftril is a 
broad firoke or band of tawny-white feathers, lying over each 
other, and running narrowed towards the bill, this a floras an 
excellent mark to diftinguifii the fpecies. 
The- 
