. 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 ... . rown, inclining a little to anolive-colour; the feathers of the tail are dusky, withred-brown edges, except the two outmost feathers oneach side, which have their outer webs white. Thequill and covert feathers of the wings are dusky, withred-brown edges, except the first quill, which has itsouter border white. The throat is white, thickly cov-^ered with short feathers; which, when he sings, riselike a
. 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 ... . rown, inclining a little to anolive-colour; the feathers of the tail are dusky, withred-brown edges, except the two outmost feathers oneach side, which have their outer webs white. Thequill and covert feathers of the wings are dusky, withred-brown edges, except the first quill, which has itsouter border white. The throat is white, thickly cov-^ered with short feathers; which, when he sings, riselike a ruff round the base of the lower chap. Thebreast is tinged with a pleasant reddish brown ; thebelly and thighs are white. The inner fore toe ad-heres to the middle one by a membrane ; the legs andfeet are a dull orange-colour. In breeding time the cock sings stoutly. Seated onsome low bush, with head erect, mouth wide open, andthroat distended, he pours out his variety of notes withboldness and great spirit. The butterfly on the plate is the dark clouded yellozo.*It frequents meadows, in the month of August, but isvery rare in most parts of this kingdom. * Papilio Electra Linn. yi/iujt-^. •^ifK-jS JAe l^Mrclhriul Cofh^wful )hL yellow SklhrfL ^rcuvnfrimJi/cy^/iuilij/icduMiJc/^diru/j. r^ICZ L!5RARY ■zrx5U I A USA 8o NEST AND EGGS OF THE WHITE-THROAT. PLATE LXXX. The White-Throat builds in some low bush or briar^two or three feet from the ground. The materials inthe nest before me are chiefly the dried stems of wood-roof and goosegrass, mixed with other small stems, andbound together with spiders webs. A thin coat ofthese substances serves for the whole nest, there beingonly a few hairs put upon it for a lining; so that thewhole, when finished, if held up against the light, ap-pears like a piece of indifferent netting: but, byreason of the roughness of the goosegrass, and the tena-city of the spiders webs, the nest retains its figure afterhandling, much better
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