. 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 ... . OR WARBLER, PLATE LXXIII. IN ot having a specimen of this bird in my possession,my figure on the plate was copied from a drawing, doneby my good friend Mr. Latham of Dartford, author ofthe General Synopsis of Birds, in 7 vols. 4to.; and theIndex Ornithologicus, in 2 vols.; the most completework on birds that has hitherto appeared in this or anyother language, whose description of the species undernotic
. 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 ... . OR WARBLER, PLATE LXXIII. IN ot having a specimen of this bird in my possession,my figure on the plate was copied from a drawing, doneby my good friend Mr. Latham of Dartford, author ofthe General Synopsis of Birds, in 7 vols. 4to.; and theIndex Ornithologicus, in 2 vols.; the most completework on birds that has hitherto appeared in this or anyother language, whose description of the species undernotice I here subjoin. Size, small; length, between five and six inches :bill, dusky; between the bill and eyes, white; the colour of the upper parts of the body, greenish brown, each feather dusky in the middle. Under parts, yel- lowish white, with a dusky tinge on the breast; tail, wedge-shaped, rather long, the outer tips of the fea- thers rather pale ; legs, dusky-white ; the hind claw,short, and sufficiently crooked to prove that it doesnot belong to the Lark genus, among which it has beenplaced by all authors before Mr. Pennant. See La-thams General Synopsis of Birds, vol. 4, page Lu Uu Ac( ^trccl/: i^ril Hi floi- ^,: 111 MCZ UBRARY - USA 74 »»-»M>«..<» NEST AND EGGS OF THE GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER, PLATE LXXIV. This nest was placed in a branch of the round-leafed-willow, which grew near the ground, and laid prostratethereon, in a very shady situation: the outside consist-ed wholly of small stems of dried grass and otherplants; the next oval, consisted of the same materialschosen softer and finer ; and, in the lining, a few finefibres of roots, and a few hairs, were mixed. The eggsin this nest were five; of a dull white, with a tinge ofgreen, and spotted at the large end with brown-redspots. This nest, like the bird to which it belongs, isso artfully concealed as to be very rarely seen.
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