BRITISH BIRDS. 22 j 
the Swallow, and begins to ling immediately on 
its arrival, and may be heard till the beginning of 
Auguft ; it frequents hedges, Ihrubberies, and fuch 
like places ; its food confills of infefts, in fearch of 
which it is continually running up and down ftnall 
branches of trees : It makes an artlefs neft, of wi- 
thered grafs, mofs, and the {lender Hems of dried 
plants , it is lined with feathers, hair, and a little 
wool, and is commonly placed in a low thick buili 
or hedge ; the female generally lays five eggs, of a 
dirty white, marked at the larger end with numer- 
ous dark brown ovalfpots. We fuppofe this to be 
the Scotch Warbler of Mr Pennant, and the Fi- 
guier bran et jaune of M. Buffon. 
THE LEAST WILLOW WREN. 
The upper parts of the plumage of this bird are 
darker than the two laft, fomewhat inclining to a 
moufe colour : Its breafl is of a dull filvery white, 
from whence in Lome places it is called the Linty- 
white ; its legs are dark. 
The fong of this is not fo loud as the laft, though 
very fimilar, and confifts of a fingle ftrain, very 
weak, and frequently repeated ; they are both com- 
mon in woods and coverts, warbling their little 
fimple fong as they fit upon the branches of trees. 
