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BIRDS. PASSERES. 86. MotacUla. dl** 
Olive-green, beneath yellow ; neck beneath and bread 
with reddifli fpots : lateral tail-feathers within yel- 
low. Telloiv-ptill Jf'’- 
Body above brown. 
Inhabits Guiana, and Canada in fummer ; inches long* 
^iU and Ugi black ; irids blue. 
Olive-green, beneath yellowifli; quill and tail-featlicrs 
brown, the lateral ones edged with yellow. 
CaraJim TeUow-polh 
-Inhabits Bay; ftze of the la ft. 
Entirely yellow and very ftnall. Tayhr 1 V^ 
Inhabits India ; 3 inches long ; conftrufts a curious neft by 
fcwing the edges of one or more leaves together, lb as to form 
a conical repofitary for its eggs and young, which is after- 
wards lined with feathers and vegetable down ; this lingular 
Work is performed by ufing its bill in the place of a ne^le, 
and Ibme vegetable fibre for thread. A beautiful reprefenta- 
tion may be leen in Skaw’s Naturalijl’s Mifcdlany, No. 79, 
plate 237. The eggs are white, and arc laid to be not larger 
than what are ufually called ants' eggs, 
Olive ; chin and tail ferruginous : eyebrows white. 
Caffrarian 
Inhabits the Cape oj Good Hope', ftze of M. alba. 
Bump ferruginous ; breajl and belly whitilh ; quill-feathers 
brown ; tail-feathers even, the lateral ones at the tip, middle 
ones entirely brown ; lores black. 
Above ferruginous, beneath white ; chin* wings and tail 
black. 
Inhabits South America. 
beneath white: crown and rump cinereous: area 
of the wings and l^eral tail-feathers yellow tipt with 
brown, the middle ones entirely brown. 
Yellow-tail IV' 
Inhabits America and migrates. 
Above blackifh, beneath ferfuginous : head dark-brown : 
nape whitilh; collar and oblong fpot on the wings 
white : back black. 
Inhabits Siberia, 
Melanopa, 
