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dull alh-colour: belly dirty white : fides, thighs, and vent, pale
tawny brown *. legs dull flefh-colour.
F emale. In the female the colours are left, vivid than m the male.
Place anb This bird, frequents hedges in England, and is very common.
Manners. Makes its neft of mofs and wool, lining it with hair; and lays
four or five eggs, of a fine .paR blue. With us, and the more-
northern regions, it is.feen at all feafons ; Tut m France it is migratory,
coming in OSober, and departing northward in fpring t
however a very few flay behind; for now and then a neft is found
in France, though rare. ' ,
This is a winter fongffier; and its note would be thought plea-
fant, did it not remind us of. the approach of winter j beginning
with the firft frofts, and continuing till a little time in fpring. ^
Its often repeating the words tit, tit, tit, has occafioned its
being called Filling; a name it is known by in many places.
The Cuckow frequently lays her egg in the neft of this bird,
Le Moipeau de Virgiaie, Brife orn. jl{H P- 101 • ’ +•
RUSH W. - Little Brown Sparrow,. Catejb. Can i. p. 35'*
Rufh Warbler, Ar8. Zool.
D escription. T E S S than our Hedge Sparrow: length.four inches.and three
quarters. Bill brown : the 'general colour of the plumage
the fame, but paleft beneath : the tail rather forked : legs
brown. .
Inhabits Virginia■ and Carolina .- feeds on infers r is much ot
the nature of the Hedge Sparrow : is not numerous, but molt
common near houfes in Carolina and Virginia the whole year.
W A R B L E R . 421
Motacilla Phænicurus, Un. Spft.i. p. 335. N» 34. — Faim Suce. N° 257.—
Scof. cm. i. p. 157. 232. — Brun. N° 280. 281. — Muller, p. 33.
N“ aj'S.— Giorgi Béife, p. 174.— Frifch. t. 1 g.— Kram. el. p. 376. u .
— Olin. UC. pl. -in p. 47.
Le Roilignol de Muraille, Bref. orn. iii. p. 403. ^-° I5-—Buf. oif. v. p. 170.
pl. 6. f. z.—Pl. enl. 351. f. 1. 2.
Redftart, RaitSyn. p. 78. A. — Will. orn. 218.— Albin, i. pl. 50.— Br. Z00L
i. N° 146.— A n i. Zool.
Le<v. Muf.
f j ' H I S is rather lefs than the Redbreaft: length five inches and
a quarter. Bill black: forehead white: crown of the head,
hind part of the neck, and back, deep blue grey ; in fome almoft
black : cheeks and throat black: breaft, rump, and fides, red :
belly white : the two middle tail feathers brown ; the reft red:
the legs black.
The female has'the top of the head and back cinereous grey:
chin white. The fame parts are red in this fex as in the male,
but not fo bright. The wings are brown in both fexes.
This bird is migratory';, meafuring its ftay with the Nightingale,
and other birds of pafiage; coming in fpring, and departing
in autumn, about October; I fhould fuppofe, departing fooner or
later, according to the more northern places of its fummer refi-
dence *. In Italy -f it is feen a month later than with -us.
It is not fo £hy as many birds, in relpedt to itfelf; for it approaches
habitations, and frequently makes its neft in fome hole
of a wall where numbers of people pafs by frequently; yet is con-
* Scopoli fays it departs in September. f Olitia.
11.
4- REDSTART.
D escription*
Female.
Place and
Manners.