. 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 ... . neck is a white ring, which takes itsrise at the angles of the mouth on each side. The backis of a tawny brown, with a black line down the middleof each feather. About the rump there is a mixture ofash-colour with the brown. The quills are of 2ifuscusbrown, with rust-coloured edges. The first and secondcovert feathers of a fuscus black, with broader edges,and tips of a rust-colour. The chin and throat
. 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 ... . neck is a white ring, which takes itsrise at the angles of the mouth on each side. The backis of a tawny brown, with a black line down the middleof each feather. About the rump there is a mixture ofash-colour with the brown. The quills are of 2ifuscusbrown, with rust-coloured edges. The first and secondcovert feathers of a fuscus black, with broader edges,and tips of a rust-colour. The chin and throat in themale are black, the breast and belly white. On thesides, the middle of the feathers are dusky. The tail is a little forked. It consists of twelvefeathers, of which the middle two are black, with rededges; the three next, on each side, are dusky, with rededges ; the fifth is white on the out border, and thesixth wholly white. The hen has no black on the head or throat, and thegeneral hue of her feathers is paler and duller than thatof thq cock. The cock sings pleasantly. His voice, as well as hisnotes, are much finer and more pleasing than those ofany other bird of the same QMnnmZE. MA USA 20 NEST AND EGGS OF THE REED-SPARROW. PLATE XX. The Reed-sparrow makes her nest near some river,lake, or pond. Sometimes conceahng it amongst sedges,fern, or rushes. Rarely, she suspends it between thestalks of the common * English-reed, as in the instancebefore us. The nest I now describe was suspendedbetween three stems of reed, the leaves whereof weredrawn together in such manner as to form a slight kindof lattice-work, upon which the foundation of the nestwas laid. The nest almost wholly consisted of brokenpieces of dried rushes; the stronger placed near thebottom, the finer round the brim. A few sprigs ofmoss were mixed here and there amongst the rushes,and the whole artfully bound together with the bladesof the growing reeds. The lining consisted of plentyof cows hair. The
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