. 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 ... . ,Tcruji/.H /(I MCZ L!B=?ARY©ftMSRlDSE. MA USA 6o NEST AND EGGS OF THE HEDGE SPARROW. PLATE LX. The Hedge Sparrow most commonly makes her nestin a Holly tree, or some other sempervirent shrub. Thenest I describe is made of coarse green moss, mixedwith wool and small sticks, and loosely tied togetherwith long blades of coarse grass. The lining consistsof red cows hair, brought in abundance, and rudely di
. 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 ... . ,Tcruji/.H /(I MCZ L!B=?ARY©ftMSRlDSE. MA USA 6o NEST AND EGGS OF THE HEDGE SPARROW. PLATE LX. The Hedge Sparrow most commonly makes her nestin a Holly tree, or some other sempervirent shrub. Thenest I describe is made of coarse green moss, mixedwith wool and small sticks, and loosely tied togetherwith long blades of coarse grass. The lining consistsof red cows hair, brought in abundance, and rudely dis-posed of. The cavity is shallow, and the whole butloosely and awkwardly fabricated. The Hedge Sparrowlays five or six eggs; they are blue, and have a cast ■% i^qs aj irULAaAl^cJncmraio-fuHijhl^ e^lhcJ^d^irich ■^td y I, 7J JSA 6i MOTACILLA HIPPOLAIS» Syst. Nat. 330, THE PETTYCHAPS, PLATE LXI. X he bill is slender; black at the point, yellowish atthe base; the mouth, yellow within. A yellow linepasses over the eye, and there is a small touch of thesame colour below the eye; and between the base ofthe bill and the eye, a dark coloured line. The head,back, wings, and tail, are of a dusky mouse-colour,with a shade of olive. On the angle of the wing is ayellow spot; the throat and upper part of the breastare a dusky white, with a few touches of a pale yellow;the lower part of the breast is white; the belly andcoverts under the tail, pale yellow. The colours of the cock are a little stronger thanthose of the hen, and he is the larger bird. He singsmounted on some high tree. His song consists of afew notes, but it is loud, chearful, and repeated withfrequency, and great spirit.
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