. 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 ... . hyfjf.:»^l) /^juc^ ;2j_rumw. Ji^cii^nlu d^cm, iDGE. MA USA yo NEST AND EGGS OF THE WILLOW-LARK. PLATE LXX. The Sedge-Bird, or Willow-Lark, makes a prettyround nest, amongst sedges or rushes, beside still riversor ponds of water. The specimen before me is madeof moss and wool, bound about with the stalks ofplants and flowery panicles of grass. The middle coatconsists of wool, moss, and cows hair ; and t
. 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 ... . hyfjf.:»^l) /^juc^ ;2j_rumw. Ji^cii^nlu d^cm, iDGE. MA USA yo NEST AND EGGS OF THE WILLOW-LARK. PLATE LXX. The Sedge-Bird, or Willow-Lark, makes a prettyround nest, amongst sedges or rushes, beside still riversor ponds of water. The specimen before me is madeof moss and wool, bound about with the stalks ofplants and flowery panicles of grass. The middle coatconsists of wool, moss, and cows hair ; and the liningis a mixture of black and white hairs, with a few finefibres of roots intermixed. The eggs are five or six,of a dull olive-colour, and unspotted; but having some-times one or two black lines near the bi^ end. This o is a rare bird about Halifax, but plentiful in some partsof Lancashire, where it inhabits the borders of stillponds and marl-pits. The Willow-Lark comes to us in April and retiresin V4jt diyTi Sfyj of ^ht */^y<i:%r^ ^tawn oY<di ^opfnT^ frurtx/}Y(,lu ^ WCZ LJBSARY -■•:!DGE: ma USA 71 MOTACILLA ARUNDINACEA. Phil. Trans, vol. 75. THE REED WARBLER, PLATE. LXXI. i he bill is black at the point, flesh-colour at thebase; the eyes, brown; the inside of the mouth,orange-colour ; from the bill to the eye, a pale line ;the whole upper side of the bird is of a dusky olive-brown ; the wings and tail, darker than the rest: thetail, when spread, is fan-shaped ; the throat is white ;the breast and belly, a pale buff-colour; the feathersunder the tail, white; the legs and feet, of an olive-colour. This bird was communicated to the Royal Society,as a new British species, by the late Rev. Mr. Light-foot, in 1785, and was published in the PhilosophicalTransactions, vol. j^, part the ist. Mr. Lightfootfirst discovered it on the banks of the river Colne, nearUxbridge. He very properly conjectures, that thebird was not confined to that place alone;
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