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tection were it not for the flight of the bird, who is easily scared 

 from her eggs. These are six in number, ground colour white, 

 sprinkled with red spots. The Hedge Treeling is one of our earliest 

 visitants, arriving in our island about the 21st of March. 



Motacilla rufa, Gmel., SysL, p. 955. — Curruca rufa, Bris., i., p. 

 418. — Silvia rufa. Lath., Ind. Orn., ii., p. 519. — Silvia collibita, 

 ViEiLLOT, Faufi. Franc, p. 214. — Silvia hippolais, Stev., Shaw*s 

 Gefi, ZooL, X., p. 746; Jenyns, Brit. Vert. An., p. 112. — Silvia 

 loquax, Herbert, White's Nat. Hist. Selb., p. bb, — Becfin ve- 

 loce, Tem., Ma7i. d'Orn., i., p. 225, and iii., p. 154. — Pauvette col- 

 libite, ViEiL., Faun. Franc, p. 214. — Weiden Sanger, Nau. Fog. 

 — Pettichap Warbler, Stev., Shaw's Gen. Zool., x., p. 746. — Hedge 

 Warbler, Mudie, Feath. Tribes, i., p. 335. 



The following is the description given by Mr. Jenyns — *' Usually 

 somewhat smaller than the Silvia melodia (Garden Treeling), with 

 the wings and tail, relatively considered, still shorter than in that 

 species ; also to be distinguished from it by the characters of the 

 quills above pointed out ; but in colour and general appearance 

 almost absolutely the same. Upper parts, olive green, tinged with 

 yellow and ash grey ; between the bill and the eye, and over each 

 eye, a narrow, faint, yellowish- white streak ; quills, cinereous 

 brown, the outer webs edged with yellowish green ; all the under 

 parts, including the under tail coverts, whitish, tinged with yellow, 

 the yellow having a tendency, on the breast, to appear in streaks ; 

 axillsf', and under wing coverts, bright primrose yellow ; tail ex- 

 tending an inch beyond the tips of the folded wings ; feet rather 

 darker than in the last species." 



Derbyshire, Feb. 15, 1836. S. D. W. 



ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED IN 

 WORCESTERSHIRE.* 



Two sepulchral Roman urns, containing human bones, were a 

 short time since discovered at Powick, between the roads leading to 

 Upton and Malvern, about nine feet below the surface. One of the 



• The following account is abridged from a highly interesting Paper on 

 Roman Antiquities, read by Jabez Allies, Esq. before the members of Thje 

 WoBCESTEasHiRE NATURAL HisTORY SociETY, December 1, 1835. 



