BRITISH BIRDS. 6l 
breaft, belly, and fides of a dirty white ; the tail 
deep brown ; the exterior web of the outer feathers 
white. It builds its neft in hedges or low bufhes, 
and lays fix white eggs, marked with a reddifh 
brown circle towards the larger end. Its man- 
ners are limilar to the laft : It frequently preys on 
young birds, which it takes in the neft ; it like- 
wife feeds on grafshoppers, beetles, and other in- 
fers. Like the laft, it imitates the notes of other 
birds, in order the more furely to decoy them.- — 
When fitting on the neft, the female foon difcovers 
herfelf at the approach of any perfon, by her loud 
and violent outcries. 
THE WOODCHAT, 
[La Pie-Griefche RouJJe , Buff.) 
Is laid to equal the laft in point of fize : Its bill 
is horn-coloured, feathers round the bafe whitilh ; 
head and hind part of the neck bright bay ; from 
the bafe of the bill a black ftreak paffes through 
each eye, inclining downwards on the neck ; back 
dulky, under parts of a yellowifti white ; quills 
black, near the bottom of each a white fpot ; the 
two middle feathers of the tail are black, the out- 
er edges and tips of the others are white ; the legs 
black. The defcription of this bird feems to have 
been taken from a drawing by Mr Edwards, in the 
