. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. legs ^; f its ta- inly two French ng Bird* e named on to the BIRD. rds refem- icckks on dely from e tail and oft where than four rd of the nly eleven aous; he fays long. Dor«^ le toes ? Brif- [aft is certainly id accordingly TPIE FRENCH MOCKING BIRD. 287 inches. Its fize is iiitermcdbte between that of the Mifiel and the Fieldfare. Its eyes are yel- low, its bill blackifli, its legs brown, and all the upper-part of the body of a fox colour, but with a mixture of brow
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. legs ^; f its ta- inly two French ng Bird* e named on to the BIRD. rds refem- icckks on dely from e tail and oft where than four rd of the nly eleven aous; he fays long. Dor«^ le toes ? Brif- [aft is certainly id accordingly TPIE FRENCH MOCKING BIRD. 287 inches. Its fize is iiitermcdbte between that of the Mifiel and the Fieldfare. Its eyes are yel- low, its bill blackifli, its legs brown, and all the upper-part of the body of a fox colour, but with a mixture of brown. Thefe two colours alfa predominate on the wing-quills, though fepa- rately ; the rufous on the outer webs, the brown on the inner. The great and middle coverts of the wings are tipt with white, which forms two ftreaks that crofs the wings obliquely. The under-fide of the body is dirty white, fpotted with a dufl';y brown, but thefe fpots are â¢ore ftraggling than in our Thruflies : the tail iv tipered fomewhat drooping, and entirely ru- fous. The fong of the French IMocking Bird has fome variety, but not comparable to that of the proper Mocking Bird. ⦠It feeds commonly on a kind of black cher- ries, which are very different from thofe of Eu- rope, fince they hang in clufters. It remains all the year in Carolina and Virginia, and con- fequently is not, at leaft in thofe provinces, a bird of paffage: âanother analogous circum- ftance to our Thrushes *. * Specific chara<fter of the Tnnlus Rufus:â" It 15 rufous, bc- " low partly fpotted with white, its wing-quills of an uniform co- " lour, its tail rounded and ; It inhabits North Ame- rica ; appears in New-York in May, and retires fouthwards in Augull. It builds in low bufhes, and lays five eg'^s, thick fpotted with ferruginous. It is much inferior in tiie variety of its notes to the true Mocking , â if^V. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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