. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . fwhich it is continually running up and down fmallbranches of trees : It makes an artlefs nell, of wi-thered grafs, raofs, and the {lender Hems of driedplants, it IS lined with feathers, hair, and a littlewool, and is commonly placed in a low thick bufhor hedge ; the female generally lays five eggs, of adirty white, marked at the larger end with numer-ous dark brown oval fpots. We fuppofe this to bethe Scotch Warbler of Mr Pennaut, and the Fi-guier bran et jaune of M. Buflon. THE LEAST WILLOW WREN. The upper parts of the plumage of th
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . fwhich it is continually running up and down fmallbranches of trees : It makes an artlefs nell, of wi-thered grafs, raofs, and the {lender Hems of driedplants, it IS lined with feathers, hair, and a littlewool, and is commonly placed in a low thick bufhor hedge ; the female generally lays five eggs, of adirty white, marked at the larger end with numer-ous dark brown oval fpots. We fuppofe this to bethe Scotch Warbler of Mr Pennaut, and the Fi-guier bran et jaune of M. Buflon. THE LEAST WILLOW WREN. The upper parts of the plumage of this bird aredarker than the two laft, fomewhat inclining to amoufe colour: Its breaft is of a dull filvery white,fi:om whence in fome places it is called the Linty-white ; its legs are dark. The fong of this is not fo loud as the laft, thoughvery fimilar, and confifts of a fingle ftrain, veryweak, and frequently repeated ; they are both com-mon in woods and coverts, warbling their littlefimple fong as they fit upon the branches of trees. 224 BRITISH BIRDS,. THE GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN, {Motacilla reguIuSy Lin.—Xe Roitelet, BufF.) This is fuppofed to be the leaft of all the Euro-pean birds J it is certainly the fmalleft of the Bri-tifh kinds, being in length not quite three inchesand a half,* and weighs only feventy-fix grains:Its bill is very llender and dark; eyes hazel; onthe top of its head the feathers are of a bright orangecolour, bordered on each fide with black, whichforms an arch above its eyes, and with which itfometimes conceals the crown, by contradling themufcles of the head; the upper part of the bodyis of a yellow ilh green or olive colour; all the un- * The body, whea ftripped of its feathers, is not quite aninch long.—Buff, BRITISH BIRDS. 225 der parts are of a pale reddifh white, tinged withgreen on the fides ; the greater coverts of the wingsare of a dufky brown, edged with yellow, and tip-ped with white; quills dulky, edged with palegreen, as are alfo the feat
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