+- WHITE-
THROAT.
D escription.
F emale.
Place and
Manners*
Motacilla fylvia, Lin. Sy/l. i. p. 330. N° 9.-—Faun. Suec. N° 250.— Brun*
71. N° 275.—Muller, p. 32. N° 269.
La Fauvette grife, ou la Grifette, Brif orn. iii. p. 3.76. N° 4. pi. 21.
f. 1.— Buf. oif. v. p . 132.— PI. enl. 579. f. 3.
La Mefange cendree, Brif. orn. iii. p. 549. N° 4,—Buf. oif. v. p. 409. III*.
La Vitrec a men ton blanc, Salerne, p. 226. 6.
Stoparola, Raii Syn, 77. A. m
White Throat, id. A. 1 .'—Will. orn. 21Q? 236.— Br. Zool, i. N° 160.——
Ar8. Zool.
Br. Muf Lev. Muf
J ^ E N G T H above five inches and a half. Bill black, at the
bafe whitilh : irides chefnut * : head brownilh afh-colour :
the back reddilh : leffer wing coverts pale brown; the greater
brown, with reddilh margins : throat white : breaft and belly
reddilh white : tail and quills dulky, edged with pale brown,
except the outer feather, which has the outer web wholly white,
and inner the fame, half way from the bafe : legs pale brown.
The female differs in having the breaft and belly wholly white.
This is a bird of paffage, vifiting us in fpring, and leaving
us in autumn, and is. not uncommon in England. It frequents
the hedges, and makes a neft two or three feet from the
ground, compofed of mofs, and dry ftalks of herbs. The eggs
are five in number, of a greenilh grey, marked with rufous and
brown * Ipots.
It is known alfo in France, and many other parts of the European
continent, and is called by the people of Provence, Le
Pajferine.
* Sometimes yellowilh hazel. f Black. W ilh g ily .
With.
With us, I believe, it lives chiefly on infers; but Buffon fays,
that it ^ill alfo feed on the fruits of the fig and olive.
La Boufcarlede Provence, Buf. oif v. 134.— Pi. tnl. 655. f. z.
r p I I I S is of the fame fize as the laft, and very fimilar ; it dif-
fers-chiefly in being much inclined throughout to fulvous,
whereas the other has a call of grey; it muft therefore be efteemed
only as a variety.
This was caught at Provence. In the PI. enl. the tail feathers
feem all of one colour*.
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V ar. A*
D escription*
Place*
m
Alauda trivialis, Lin. Syjl. L p. 28$.
L* Alouette de Buiffon, Brif. orn. iii. p. 347'.
— Pipi, Buf. oif. v. p. 39. pi. 4.— Pi* enl. 661. f. 2*.
Piep Lerche, Frifcb. pi. 16.
Pipit Lark, Albin, i. pi. 44 ?
Grafshopper Lark, Raii Sy«. p. 70.— Will. or«, p. 20g.— Br. Zool. N° 156.
ArSl. Zool.
Lev. Muf
GRASSHOPPER
W
C I Z E fmall: length between five and fix inches. Bill dufky:
between the bill and eye white: the colour of the upper
parts of the body greenilh brown, each feather dulky in the
middle : the under parts yellowilh white, with a dulky tinge on
the breaft: tail cuneiform, rather long; the outer tips of the
feathers very pale : legs dulky white:l the hind claw fufficiently
crooked to prove it does not belong to the Lark genus, with
which
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