. 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 ... . The nest beforeme was built in a branch of * common broom, just at thetime when the buds were swelling for leaves, as repre-sented in the plate. Below the nest I have thrown asprig of broom flov/ers by way of decoration. The outside of the nest consists wholly of driedstalks and blades of grass, neatly folded and interlacedtogether. The lining consists wholly of willow down,but between this and the out
. 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 ... . The nest beforeme was built in a branch of * common broom, just at thetime when the buds were swelling for leaves, as repre-sented in the plate. Below the nest I have thrown asprig of broom flov/ers by way of decoration. The outside of the nest consists wholly of driedstalks and blades of grass, neatly folded and interlacedtogether. The lining consists wholly of willow down,but between this and the outside is an intermediatecoat or stratum of small roots, and a few hairs. Thisnest, as well as some others, are beautiful to admira-tion ; and it is not without regret that I find myselfunder a necessity of tearing them to pieces, in orderto give faithful descriptions of them. There was five eggs in the nest of a dusky green-blue, thickly spotted at the big end with small purplespots. The song of the cock is inean, but in beauty hegives place to none of the British Linnets. Our birdmen here call it chisaree, in imitation of aparticular cry it makes in breeding-time. * Spartium eAM£.RlDGE. MA USA 33 ..»..»..» « LA CABARET. Briison 3—142. THE TWITE. PLATE XXXIII. X he bill of the male is entirely yellow, in the femaledusk; it is short, straight, and sharp-pointed. The eyesare brown. The cheeks are a pale brown, which col-our is continued round the eye. The feathers on thehead and upper part of the back are black, with brownedges. Those of the lower part of the back are alsobrown, but in the male are glossed over, as it were,with a beautiful shining scarlet or crimson colour, butnot so in the female. In the bird before me, the three first quill feathersof the wing are wholly black, the next five have theirouter edges for more than half their length white, andall the second order of quills, as well as the greatercoverts, have light-coloured tips; the lesser cov
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