138 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
room, (he immediately difeovers, and throws 
them out. Yet it is faid, that in the neft of 
this bird the cuckow frequently lays its egg, 
and that fhe attentively fofters its young. 
The Petty Chaps is of a timid difpofition, flies 
away from birds as fmall as itfelf, and is very 
juflly afraid of the Butcher Birds, its for¬ 
midable enemy. 'I he moment the danger is 
paft, it feems entirely to forget it, and all its 
former gaiety returns. 
It generally fings perched among the mod 
tufted foliage of a tree ; fometimes for a moment 
it fhews itfelf on the outfide of a bufh, and in- 
flantly hides itfelf again among!!: the leaves. 
In the morning it bathes itfelf in the dew upon 
the leaves, or after flight fhowers in the fummer. 
As they feed principally on infe&s, they leave 
us in autumn, though there are fome berries upon 
which they will feed. 
SEDGE BIRD. 
Rhimagc, afh colour, white beneath, with white eye-brows. 
Head brown with dufhy (Ireaks, tail brown, and circular 
when fpread ; toes fulvous and yellowifh. 
Inhabits Europe, is frequent in Ruffia, and Si¬ 
beria, among the willow thickets, near the 
rivers. 
This 
