. 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 ... . s built on the ledge of a rock,overhung with trees and bushes. It was placed amongst,and partly hidden by, the growing leaves of the great-^ hairy wood-rush. The outside of the nest is composed of variouskinds of moss, grass, stubble, and stalks of dried inside, or lining, is made of the same materials,but softer and finer, and mixed with a few roots andblack hairs. It is a loose mean struct
. 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 ... . s built on the ledge of a rock,overhung with trees and bushes. It was placed amongst,and partly hidden by, the growing leaves of the great-^ hairy wood-rush. The outside of the nest is composed of variouskinds of moss, grass, stubble, and stalks of dried inside, or lining, is made of the same materials,but softer and finer, and mixed with a few roots andblack hairs. It is a loose mean structure. The di-araeter of the cavity is about two inches, the depth lessthan an inch. Six eggs were in this nest. They are large for the sizeof the bird. The ground colour is white, and they areall over splashed with spots of a pale red. The Fly-catcher is a bird of passage, comes to usabout the end of April, and leaves us again in cock ceases to sing about the end of June. Hissong has some resemblance of that of the blackcap,but his notes are fewer, less brisk, and less Fly-Catcher feeds on spiders, small beetles, andvarious kinds of small flies. * Juncus MC2 ;^MSfilDGE. MA USft 39MUSCICAPA ATRICAPLLA. Syst. Nat. 326, THE PIED FLY-CATCHER, OR COLDFINCH. ^ PLATE XXXIX. J. he bill is flat at the base, ridged along the upperchap. In the cock wholly black ; that of the hendusky near the base. The eyes are brown. At theangles of the mouth are a few black bristles like feath-ers. The forehead is white. The top of the head,the upper part of the neck, and the back, are black inthe male bird, but of a dusky brown in the covert feathers of the tail have white edges andtips in the male, not so in the female. In the bird before me, the first and second quillfeathers of the wing are black, with dusky edges, ex-cept four of the last, which have their outer webs first coverts are of a dusky black on their upperpart, the lower part a pure
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