The foody for the moll part,, is Caterpillars.
Scopqli obferves, that it is a reftlefs, noify bird, imitating the-
notes of other birds; and is frequent in the gardens at Pifa 'tn
fummer,, where it is called Bianchetto.
Motacilla Schaanobanus; Lin. SyJi.X. p. 329' if.— Faun. Suec. N° 246.
Seep. ann. i. N° 235.— Faun. Arab. p. 6. N° 17.
Motacilla Yvica, Haffelq. Voy. p. 286. N° 50.
La F-auvette de bois, ou la Rouflette, Brif. orn. iii. p. 393. N° 11. Buf. oif.
v. p. i^g.— Raii Syn. p. 80. N° 1»
Small Nightingale, Will. orn. p. 337;
O I Z E of the Pettichaps. The bill blackilh : the head, hind
° part of the neck,, bread, back, rump, wing and tail coverts,
brown and rufous; viz. each, feather brown, bordered with- rufous
: throat, fore part of the neck, belly, fides,, thighs, and vent,,
inclined to rufous : quills brown, edged with rufous.: tail wholly
brown : legs whitilh.
This is found both, in France and Italy,, and is likewife an inhabitant
o( Sweden. Whether it migrates in the laft, we are not
told; but it is known to winter in the fouth of France, changing
its place, like the Whin Chat in England.
It builds the neft in the woods,, which is chiefly, compofed of
mofs and wool; and lays four or five iky-blue eggs-
The young are readily brought up; and the bird in general
very tame and familiar. Its fong is not unpleafant; and befides,,
treating us with it during the winter feafon.
Sylvia Schaenobanus, Scop. ann. i. N° 235.
T H I S feems to me to differ in fpecies from the laft.
Scopoli defcribes his bird as having the upper parts pale rufous,
fpotted with brown; the throat and breaft both- inclined to
rufous; and the belly and rump whitilh: there is a whitilh fpot
alfo above the outer corner of the eye, and a band of white at the
bafe of the wing : the tail feathers are pointed.
He fays, that it builds on the ground ; is often feen fitting on
the tops of plants; migrates early in autumn; and is called
-by the Italians, Gvifato.
The eircumftance of the migrating, gives feafon for fuppofing
it a different bird from the other; otherwife they fomewhat cor-
refpond.
Motacilla modularis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 329. N° 3. — Faun. Suec. 24.5. — Brun.
70. 269.—Muller, p. 32, N* 266.— Frifch. t. 21. 3ua Fauvette-de Haye, ou la Paffe-bufe, Brif. orn. iii. p. 394. N° 12.
i e Traine-buifibn* Mouchet,'ou la Fauvctte d’Hi-ver, Buf. oif. v. p. r$i.
pi. 9.——iV. enl. 615. f. 1.
-Hedge Sparrow, Raii Syn. p. 79. A. 6. — Will. orn. 215. — Albin, iii. pi. 59.
—Br. Zool. i. N° 150.— Aril. Zool.
Br. Miff. Lev. Muf.
^ p H l S well-known bird meafures five inches and a quarter.
The bill is blackifh: irides hazel: the head deep brown,
mixed with afh-colour: cheeks marked with oblong fpots of dirty
white : back and wing coverts dufky, edged with reddifh brown:
squills and tail dufky rump greenifh brown : throat and breaft
2 H 2 dull
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