. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . pale coloured edges. On the breast of the cock is a lunated mark of aclear white, terminating in a point on each side of theneck ; else the whole underside of the bird is the samecolour as the back. The hen differs from the cock, inthat the mark is not white on the breast, but of a duskybrown. The colour of the back is more Juscus. Thefeathers on the breast have grey borders, and the billis dusky. The
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . pale coloured edges. On the breast of the cock is a lunated mark of aclear white, terminating in a point on each side of theneck ; else the whole underside of the bird is the samecolour as the back. The hen differs from the cock, inthat the mark is not white on the breast, but of a duskybrown. The colour of the back is more Juscus. Thefeathers on the breast have grey borders, and the billis dusky. The feet and legs in both are of a duskyhorn colour. These birds sometimes visit the mountainous partsof the West Riding of Yorkshire, where they come in April, and leave us in October ; butwhence they come, or whither they go, I know not. Aremarkable circumstance is, that they do not visit usregularly every year. Sometimes a few pairs visit myneighbourhood, sometimes they come in plenty, andsometimes for the space of two or three years we seethem not. They feed on fruits and insects. I have figuredthe flowers and fruit of the * mountain-ash, or quicken-tree. * Sorbus M-. ISA lO NEST AND EGGS OF THE RING-OUZLE. PLATE X. The nest I described was composed of many smallsprigs and branches of heath, mixed with moss anddried stalks of plants. These were plentifully bestowedon the bottom and sides of the nest, and with themthe figure and cavity thereof was formed; within thiswas a coat of plaster, composed of mud mixed withsmall blades of grass and fibres of roots, and upon theplaster was another coat of fine soft grass, which alsocovered the brim of the nest, and was very neatly andsmoothly laid, as in the nest of the blackbird. The eggs were four in number. In size and colourmuch like those of the blackbird, but are splashed withbroad spots of a red brown, by which they are at oncedistinguished from the eggs of that bird. The outside of the nest was quite covere
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