. Philosophical transactions. ed branch of a Syringabufh, or Fhiladeiphus, growing in a garden hedge by the rivetfide. She lays commonly four eggs; the ground colour a dirtywhite, flained all over with dull olive-coloured fpots, butchiefly at the greater end, where are generally feen two orthree fmall irregular black fcratches; but thefe are fometimesfcarcely vifible. I mufl not omit, that both the nefl and eggs which I havenow defcribed, whether defigned for the fame Or not, are wellexpreffed by Sepp, in the work above cited, under the articleTurdus Calamoxenus^ or Rietvinck, p. 97,; but as t
. Philosophical transactions. ed branch of a Syringabufh, or Fhiladeiphus, growing in a garden hedge by the rivetfide. She lays commonly four eggs; the ground colour a dirtywhite, flained all over with dull olive-coloured fpots, butchiefly at the greater end, where are generally feen two orthree fmall irregular black fcratches; but thefe are fometimesfcarcely vifible. I mufl not omit, that both the nefl and eggs which I havenow defcribed, whether defigned for the fame Or not, are wellexpreffed by Sepp, in the work above cited, under the articleTurdus Calamoxenus^ or Rietvinck, p. 97,; but as the bird therereprefented is evidently the Motacilla Sylvia^ Lin. or commonWhite-throat (which is known to make a very different neft), Iam inclined to believe, that the author, by miflake, placed abird and nefl in the fame plate which do not belong to eachother. 1 have reafon to think, that the bird I have been charac-terizing is a bird of migration; for the inhabitants on the fides 2 of //«/,... rrniLrlMLXXV ■Ub.\.,,. ( a new Englifli Bird, 15 of the Coin do not recollea ever to have feen It In the wintermonths; and its food being infeds, it is probable, it muft beoblioed to fhift its quarters for a warmer climate at the ap-proa^ch of a fevere feafon; but this at prefent is only matter ofGonjeaure, and not certainty. I am, &;c, JOHN- LIGHTFOOT,
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