. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . rown, variegated with streaks of alighter hue ; the throat, breast, and belly are of a silverywhite ; the rump tawny 5 the quills are dusky, edgedwith tawny, and marked with bars of the same colour;the tips are white ; above each eye a small dark linepasses towards the neck, above which there is a line ofwhite : the tail is long, and consists of twelve stiff feathers,of a tawny colour, pointed and forked at the end : thelegs are short, and of a brown colour ; the claws are long,sharp, and much hooked, by which it is enabled to runwi
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . rown, variegated with streaks of alighter hue ; the throat, breast, and belly are of a silverywhite ; the rump tawny 5 the quills are dusky, edgedwith tawny, and marked with bars of the same colour;the tips are white ; above each eye a small dark linepasses towards the neck, above which there is a line ofwhite : the tail is long, and consists of twelve stiff feathers,of a tawny colour, pointed and forked at the end : thelegs are short, and of a brown colour ; the claws are long,sharp, and much hooked, by which it is enabled to runwith great facility on all sides of small branches of treesin quest of insects and their eggs, which constitute itsfood. Although very common, x is not seen without diffi-culty, from the ease with which, en the appearance of any BRITISH BIRDS. 149 one, it escapes to the opposite side of the tree. It buildsits nest early in the spring, in a hole of a tree : the fe-male lays from five to seven eggs, of an ash colour,marked at the end with spots of a deeper
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