The Hifiory of A N I M A L & 
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Motacilla fufca y fuhtus albida^ macula pone oculos grifea . 
The brown Motacilla , white underneath , ^ 
fpot behind the eyes . 
This is of the bignefs of the red-breaft : the head is large and rounded ; the eyes 
are fmall, and their iris is hazel: the beak is flender and brown ; the ears are large 
and patulous. 
The head, neck, and back are of a mixed brown, compofed of a reddifh-tawny and 
black; the middles of all the feathers being black, and their edges ferrugineous: the 
head has alfo fomewhat of a greyifh tinge, and is ornamented on each iide with a fpot; 
the lower part of the back, toward the rump, has fomewhat of a greeniftt tinge : the 
large feathers of the wings are brown, and their edges a reddifh-brown; there are alfo 
fome white fpots on the others, one on each: the bread: and throat are grey; the 
belly and thighs are white; the legs yellowilh. 
This is frequent in our hedges, and flngs very fweetly. All the writers on birds 
have defcribed it. Gefner calls it Curruca ; others, Hippolais and Curruca Elioke. 
Motacilla virefcens fubtus cinerea. 
The greenijh Motacilla , with a grey breaft . 
This is of the flze of the hedge-fparrow, and has been by many miftaken for the 
female of that fpecies: the head is large and rounded; the eyes are fmall, and their 
iris is hazel: the beak is flender and pointed ; the head, neck, and back are of a dufky 
olive colour, with a ftrong tinge of green: the wings are of a ferrugineous brown ; 
the throat is white, and the breaft is of a pale grey; the belly whiter: the tail is 
brown, but toward the edges it has a little variegation of white. 
fparrotu. 
Authors call this Ficedula feptima. We have it not in England. 
Motacilla alis nigro et flam variegatis. 
The Motacilla, with variegated wings . 
cteften Kcgulus. 
This is of the fize of the common wren, but, it’s feathers lying more clofe and 
even, it looks fmaller : the head is a little deprefled ; the eyes are of a deep hazel: the 
beak is flender and brown : the head, neck, and back are of a mixt colour of green- 
ifh and grey ; the breaft and belly are of a pale grey, rendered dufky by an admix¬ 
ture of the olive brown, and the throat is paler than any other part: the wings are va¬ 
riegated with black and yellow, and on fome parts with white ; the head in the male 
is ornamented with a yellow fpot in the middle, and has a creft of feathers ere&ed at 
pleafure. 
We have this in England, but it is lefs common than in many other parts of Eu¬ 
rope. The authors, who have written on birds, call it Regulus criftatus, and Parus 
l'ylvaticus. 
Motacilla cinereo-virens fubtus flavefcens . 30 
The yellow-wafted^ greyijh-green Motacilla . MrttjjOttt if tVttt* 
This is as fmall as the preceding fpecies, and is a very elegant little bird : the head 
is fmall, and the eyes of a bright hazel; the beak is very flender and fharp, and of a 
bright brown : the head, neck, and back are of a very Angular colour, which feems 
compofed of grey, green, and brown ; upon the whole, it forms a very Angular kind 
of olive: the Ades of the head are ornamented with an oblong, yellow line, which 
runs from the eyes to the hinder part of the head ; the throat is of a very pale yel- 
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