Place.
<27.
PALE THR,
Description.
Place.'
28.
REED THR.
Description.
'Place and
.Manner-s.
Inhabits the woods of the northern parts of RuJJia : fings
w e ll: fond of the fruit Mack-berried Heath *,
' jp H E body of this “bird is yellowilh afh-colour: the under
parts_ whitifh, inclining to yellow on the neck;: the tail is
cinereous brown : the outer feathers white at the tips.
Inhabits Sibiria j found only beyond Lake Baikal f .
Turdus arundinaceus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 296. N° 25.
La Roufferolle, ou Roucherolle, Brif. orn. ii. p. 219. N° 6.— Buf. oij\ ill.
p. 293. pi. 18.— PL enl. 513.
Rohrvogel, Kram. EL p. 375. N° 8.
Junco ima Aldrov. Rati Syn. p. 113*. A. 7 ?— Will, orn. p. 311. pi. 58.
Junco, or greater Reed Sparrow, Rail Syn. p. 4,7. N° 2..—Will. orn. p. 143.
ATHER bigger than a Lark: length feven inches. The upper
.mandible brown ; the lower whitifli: the plumage is rufous
brown above, and of a dirty white beneath : chin nearly white :
quills brown, edged with rufous brown: tail the Colour of the
back: legs grey.
This is an European bird, frequenting marfhy places, efpecially
where reeds grow, and is obferved to run up them as Woodpeckers
on a tree; but is not found in England, as far as has come to our
knowledge. Said to be common in the fouthern parts of RuJJia,
and in Poland J, frequenting the fmall iflands of the Vijiula,
* Empetrum nigrum, Lin. f Mr. Pennant,
X M. Sonnerat is alfo faid to have met with this very Ipecies in the Philippine
Iflands. Hifi. desoif.
making its neft on the mofiy hillocks among the reeds and rujhes*,
and laying five or fix eggs. The male is perpetually Tinging
while the female'is fitting: hence has been by fome called the
Water Nightingale.
23.
Lev. Muf. V ar. A«^
pale brown : upper parts of the body pale teftaceous brown;
the under dulky white : over the eye a ftreak of the fame: quills
dufky, edged the colour of the back: rump and tail rufous ; all
but the two middle feathers have a bar of black near the end,
which is fartheft from the end on the outer feather; from the
bar to the tip, three of the outer feathers are white; the fourth
white on the inner web only; and next to that the white is wanting
: the legs arepale brown.
This inhabits Gibraltar. Place.
20.
Turdus plumbeus, Lin. Syjl.i. p. 294. N° 12. RED-LEGGED
be Merle cendré d'Amérique, Brif. orn. ii. p. 288. N° 40.— PI. enl. 56«. I. THR.
Le Tilly, ou la Grive cendrée d’Amérique, Bnf. oif iii. p. 314.
Red-legged Thrufti, Catejb. Car. i. pi. ys.— Arà. Zool.
O I Z E o f the Redwing: length ten inches: weight two ounces Descriftiok.
and a half. Bill, eyelids, and irides, red : palate orange :
head, and upper parts of the body, deep alh-colour : between the
bill and eye a black fpot : throat white, fpotted with black ; from
thence all the under parts are afh-colour, growing almoft white
towards the vent : quills blackilh, edged with grey : tail cuneit
* Kramer fays, that it fufpends the neft between three reeds fattened together.
V ol. II. F form,