The Garden Warbler 



THE Garden Warbler is a little brown 

 bird of retiring habits. It is about six 

 inches in length, but cannot very well be 

 mistaken for a female blackcap if the fact is 

 remembered that it has no rusty brown on 

 the top of its head ; or for the whitethroat, 

 because the colour under its bill and on 

 its breast is a dull lightish brown. 



It is a migratory bird arriving from the 

 South towards the end of April or beginning 

 of May, and returning again to its winter 

 quarters in September and October. 



The song of the male is considered by 

 many nature-lovers to be almost as good as 

 that of the blackcap, and several of its notes 

 may easily be mistaken for those of that 

 favourite Warbler. They are of the same 

 bright, pure, musical quality, but not quite 

 so powerful, and are delivered in a rather 

 more hurried manner. 



Concealed in some thick bush the Garden 



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