with pale grev - tail brown, bordered with grey ; the two middle
• feathers tinged with yellow; the two outer ones fpotted with
white within, near the tipj and the outer one of all bordered
with white : legs brown.
Place. Inhabits Leuijiana.
,27. Le Figuier Graffet, Buf. oif. v. p. 319.— Ar3. Zool.
GRASSET W.
D escription. D I L L black: the upper parts of the body greyilh olive: on
the head a fpot of yellow : on the body fome dafhes of
black: the rump is yellow : throat and fore part of the neck
pale rufous, with a mixture of alh-colour: reft of the under parts
whitilh : greater quills brown, edged with grey without, and
whitilh within; fecondaries blackilh, edged and tipped with
grey : tail black, edged with grey; the four outer feathers have a
white fpot on the inner webs, near the tip : legs black.
Place. Inhabits Louiftana.
128.
GREYTHROA
FED W.
D escription.
Place.
Le Figuier cendré à gorge cendrée, Buf. oif. v. p. 319.
Grey-throated Warbler, Ar&. Zool.
T> I L L black; beneath grey : the general colour of the plumage
cinereous, but the head and upper parts much deeper
than the reft : the auills have whitilh edges: the tail black; the
outer feathers almoft wholly white; the next the fame on the end
half; the third only tipped with white.
Both the laft are called Graffet in Louifiana, on account of their
being extremely fat.
They
They frequent the tulip-trees and Magnolias-, particularly
the laft.
Motacilla calidris, Lin. Syf. 3. p. 329. N° 2. ; 129.
Le GrandFiguier de la Jamaïque, Brif orn. Suppl, p. 101.— Buf. oif. v. p. 320. HANG-NEST
Watchy Picket, Spanilh Nightingale, or American Hang-neft, Sloan. Jam. ii.
p. 299 '— Ran Syn. p. 184. N ’ 27 i
American Nightingale, Ed*w. pi. 121. f. 2.
C I Z E of the Red-breafl. Bill ftout, blackilh ; the under man- D escription.
dible flelh-colour : the upper parts of the bird are greenilh
brown, paleft on the rump and ends of fome of the tail feathers ;
all but the two middle ones of which are rufous within : the fides
of the head and under parts of the body dirty orange : through
each eye a dulky line, and a fécond beneath the eye, pointing
downards : the wing coverts have yellowilh edges, and moft of
the quills are rufous on the inner webs : legs blackilh.
Inhabits Jamaica^ Place.
Edwards is inclined to think that this bird is the Watchy Picket
of Sloane, above-named. If fo, it is faid to make a curious pen-
file neft, compofed chiefly of Old Man’s Beard *.
Le Demi-fin noïr & roux, Buf oif. v. p. 328. WHITE
CHINNED W.
C I Z E o f a Linnets length five inches and two thirds. The D escription.
bill blackilh, rather flender : irides chefnut : the upper part
* See Hang-neji Oriole, -vol. i. p. 437 of this Work,
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