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parts, greenilh alh-colour : quills and tail moufe-colour,with greenilh
edges and black lhafts : under wing covens yellow : belly filvery
white : the bread darker, and tinged with yellow : legs blueilh or
lead-coloured.
Place an® This fpecies is frequent in feveral parts of England, and makes a
M ansers. neft of an arched form, compofed of dry bents, mixed with a little
mefs, and thickly lined with feathers : it is placed on the ground
under a tuft of grafs, or at the bottom of a bulh. The eggs are
five in number, white, fprinkled all over with fmall red fpots, mod
fo at the larged end- In Dorfetjhire it is known by the name of Hay-
bird *. In Yorkfhire it is called the Beam-bird t-
4. La petit Fauvette.* Brif. orn. iii. p. 374, N° 3.
PASSERINE W. Pafferinette, Buf. oif. v. p. 123.— PL enL 579. f. 2.
Borin, Aldr. a-v. ii. p. 733. t. in p. av. t. 44.— Bait Syn. p. &i.
N° 10.— Will, orn. p. 216.
f p H I S is lefs than the lad, being only five inches and a quarter
-*■ in length. The hill is (lender and Iharp, and of a brown colour :
irides red brown : the upper parts of the body pale alh-colour J ; the
under parts of a greyilh white; the fides inclining to brown • over
the eye a fmall whitilh dreak: quills and tail dulky : legs lead-colour.
This inhabits various parts of Europe, but is not in England. It
is found in Provence, in France, where it is called Pafferinette by
the people of Bologna, Chivin ; at Marjeilles, Becafigulo ; and Borin
by the Genoefe.
It makes the ned on fome low bulh, near the ground; fueh as a
goofeberry-bulh, It is compofed of dry herbs., larged on the outfide,
and finer within.
The eggs are four in number, of a dirty white, fpotted with green
o f two colours; mod fo about the large end.
It has no other note than a. chirp or two, which it repeats when
hopping from one Ihrub to another.
* For the above account I am indebted to the Rev. Mr. Lightf.ot. The bird, neft,
and. eggs, are in the collection of the Dnchefs Dowager of Portland, at Buljlrode.
4 Br. Zool.
i Wtllughby fays, the rump is white ; but neither Buffon nor Brijfon mention this
«ircumftance.
INSCRIPTION.
P lace and
Manners.
Motacilla atricapilla, Lin. Syft. i. 5. 332. N“ 18. — Faun. Suec. N* 256.
' Scop. ann. i. N" 229. — Brun. orn. N° 278. 279. — Muller, p. 33.
N° 277.—Kram. el. 377. 15.— Fri/ch. t. 23.—Olin. uc. pi. in p, 9.
La Fauvette à tête noire, Brif. orn. iii. p. 330. N° 6. — Buf. oif v. p. 125.
pi. 8. f. 1.
Blackcap, Rail Syn. p. 79. A. %.—Will. orn. p. 226. — Br. Zo<tl. i. Ne 1+8.
—Ar£i. Zool.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf
T N fize lefs than the Pettichaps : length five inches and a quar-
"*■ ter. Bill brown: the top of the head is-black: the upper
parts of the body greenilh alh-colour fides of the head, and
under parts, grey, changing to very light grey, or almod white,
towards the vent: the quills and tail cinereous brown, margined
with the fame colour as the upper parts: the tail has the two
middle feathers rather the lhorted: legs lead-colour: claws
black.
Tht female differs from the male only in having the head'of a
ferruginous chefnut-colour, indead of black.
This bird is not unfrequent in England, and elfewhere in
Europe, as far as Italy.-, in all which places it is known to breed s
coming in fpring, and retiring in September.
With us it makes but one ned in the year *,, which is generally
placed in fome low bulh, not far from the ground. It is compofed
of dried dalks, mixed with a little wool and green mofs
round the verge : the infide lined with the fibres of roots, thinly
covered with black horfe-hair.
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* In Italy it builds twice in the year.— — O/;««.
BLACKCAP.
D escription.
F emale*
Place and
Manners.
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