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Pictures of Bird Life 



sli()wiiii>" tlic old l)ird's beak and ])art of lier head inserted 

 down the youno- bird's gaping tliroat. 



Tlie I^esser Wliitethroat is distinctly more uncommon than 

 the last species, though se^'eral nests are found each year. 

 They are very similar in construction to the last, but a 

 little smaller, and are very often much higher up, some- 

 times almost at the top of a high hedge. In such a 

 situation you very seldom find a nest of the Greater 

 Whitethroat, which prefers a more lowly nesting-site among 

 brambles and low bushes. The eggs are roimder and smaller, 

 and of two quite distinct types : one, except in size, closely 

 resembles the eg-o- of the Cireater AMiitethroat, and is of a 

 freckled greenish white ; the other is always very roimd, and 

 the spots are distributed in a zone round the larger end, 

 leaving the rest of the e^^^ almost colourless. 



Spottkd Flycatcher i^Miiscicapa gnsola). 



