. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. '"'.4J THE YELLOW W R E M. 355 fretillet: in Pfovence, fji *. It is alfo foiitid in Italy f; and the Greeks ieem to have known it by the teirm o/o-xpcjj (a gnd-flyj. It is proba- ble that the fma/I green wrerty which Edwardi tells us was broUghtfrom Bengal, is only a va- riety of the European yellow wren. [A] [A] Specific chara£ler of the Yellow or Willow Wrertj MotacUla-Trochiliis: " It 13 cinereous greenifh ; the under fide of its wings and their coverts
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. '"'.4J THE YELLOW W R E M. 355 fretillet: in Pfovence, fji *. It is alfo foiitid in Italy f; and the Greeks ieem to have known it by the teirm o/o-xpcjj (a gnd-flyj. It is proba- ble that the fma/I green wrerty which Edwardi tells us was broUghtfrom Bengal, is only a va- riety of the European yellow wren. [A] [A] Specific chara£ler of the Yellow or Willow Wrertj MotacUla-Trochiliis: " It 13 cinereous greenifh ; the under fide of its wings and their coverts yellowifli j its eyebrows ; Mr. White aflerts that there arc three fpccies of the willow wren, which differ in their fize, and in their note. The yelloweft bird is confiderably the largeft, and i« diftinguiflied by having its quills tipped with white. Tt haunts the tops of trees, and makes a fibilouS noife like a grafhopper; at intervals it rifcs finging and fhivering its wings. But it were rafli to multiply fpecies. This bird is much fubjeft to variety in point of fize and plumage j and Its note mufl evidently depend on the feafon of the year. * M. Guys. f Aldrovandus. ^ Ariftotle (lib. viii. 3) only names the onrrpot between the iOTXaij and the rvfotnoi, as one of thefe little birds that feed upon infeds. " Two circumftances induce us to think that this is the ajlus : the flrft, that it would be fo called in (neece on account of Its fmallnefs; the fecond, that, as the gad-fly makes a continual noife with its wings, fo this bird fings alnioft ; Dclon, Nai. des OifeauK, P- 344. - ^< i*. â S' V i:' â¢v'.t' rw-h â 'â Sim â â Aa ^ THE. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strac
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