84 British Birds^ 



SAVI'S ^ K:^Y,'L^^—{Acrocephahis licscinioides ; 

 formerly, Salicaria luscinioides). 



Not of sufficiently common occurrence to demand 

 lengthened notice here. 



DARTFORD ^ KK^'LY.'^—^Melizophilus undatus ; 

 formerly, M. provincialis). 



A bird which is scarcely known except on some of 

 the furze-growing commons of the South, especially 

 Kent and Surrey. The nest is of dry grass-stalks, 

 loosely put together and tied with wool, and sparingly 

 lined with other fine and dry vegetable substances. 

 " The eggs," we read in Yarrell, " are somewhat similar 

 to those of the White-throat, but rather less ; and like 

 them, are tinged with green. They are speckled all 

 over with olive-brown and cinereous on a greenish 

 white ground ; the markings becoming more dense 

 and forming a zone at the large end." — Fig. 13, plate 

 III. 



WHITE-THROAT i—(^y^7^ nifa; formerly, 

 Curruca cinered), 



Nettle-creeper. — Another pleasant singer, but with 

 occasional harsher notes, and a chiding one, not un- 

 like the Sedgebird's, when uneasy or irritated. This 

 is the usual Hay-chat of the country lads, and fully 

 as often called the Nettle-creeper ; the former name 

 being due to the fabric of its nest, the latter to its 

 habite of twining in and out of the leaves and coarse 

 herbage which abound among its haunts. Little de- 



^ Called *'The Greater White-throat" in the last edition of 

 Yarroll. 



