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The same cause has reduced its numbers at 

 Amberley, and in most of its favourite haunts. 

 These birds and their beautiful nests may, how- 

 ever, still be found during the month of May 

 in the reedy ditches a little to the westward of 

 the old wooden bridge on the Adur, about a mile 

 above Shoreham. 



Nightingale, Philomela luseinia. Abundant 

 during the summer in woods, copses, and hedges, 

 but perhaps more numerous on the clay soils of 

 the weald than anywhere else. In this — as an 

 insectivorous bird — it forms an exception to a 

 general rule ; every other species of the dentiros- 

 tral tribe, resident as well as migratory, being, 

 comparatively, but sparingly distributed in that 

 district. 



Blackcap, Curruca atricapilla. Found in 

 thickets and groves during the summer, but not 

 plentiful anywhere. Rare in the weald. 



Garden Warbler, Curruca Jiortensis. In its 

 habits and haunts resembles the last species, but 

 is certainly of less frequent occurrence. 



Common Whitethroat, Curruca cinerea. 

 Common. 



Lesser Whitethroat, Curruca sylviella. In 

 the neighbourhood of Chichester, Bognor, Pag- 

 ham, and Worthing, this bird is as numerous as 

 the last species, and appears even more so ; its 



