. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . yellowifh in both fexes, Jlbin de-fcribes thofe of his male fpecimen to be pale amber colour, and thofeof the hen to be black. Latham^ m his Gen, Syn. has given a defcription of four otherbirds, which he
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . yellowifh in both fexes, Jlbin de-fcribes thofe of his male fpecimen to be pale amber colour, and thofeof the hen to be black. Latham^ m his Gen, Syn. has given a defcription of four otherbirds, which he confiders only as varieties of the MotacillaTrochilus. Among thofe are included the Greater kon-crestedRegulus of lFiIlnghb)\ and the Motacilla Acredula of Z/«-naus. This latter bird appears in the Briti/h Zoology of Pennant asa new fpecies, (the Scotch Wren;) it has been alfo confidered as adiftinii: kind in the writings of fome, and the fynonymas of others,as Brijfon^ Buffon^ ^^y-i Sloane^ Catejhy^ and Edwards^ but as it dif-fered from our fpecies only in the colour of the upper parts, incliningmore to brown than to green, and the lower parts more to yellow,Mr. Latham concluded it was only a variety. It is a native of Ja^maica^ Carolina^ and America\ but one was communicated to by E. S. Frafer^ Efq. who informed him that it Vv^as ihot inthe Highlands of Scotland, PLATE ^. PLATE XV. MOTACILLA FLAVAr Yellow Wagtail, Passeres. Bill conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked, GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill weak and flender; illghtly notched at the tip. Tongue lace-rated at the end. Legs flender. Tail frequently in motion, feldoniperch; have a twittering noife in flight *. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Bill black: head and upper parts of the body olive green, rumppalefl:: under parts from the throat bright yellow; on the throat afew black fpots; above the eye a fl:reak of yellow, through the eyesanother of dufky colour: beneath the eye alfo a flreak of wing coverts as the
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