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Grasshopper Warbler, both in size and manner of flight, 

 resembles the Whitethroat. It would jerk through the air, 

 dive into the bottom of a Juniper and re-commence its song. 

 As it sang, its whole body down to the tail thrilled. The 

 bird's back was dark brown, its throat white, the breast grey, 

 tinged with dull yellow. The song closely resembles the 

 chirp of a grasshopper. It can be heard at a great distance, 

 but does not sound loud when you are close. We searched 

 amongst the herbage at the foot of several Juniper-bushes, 

 but failed to find the nest. 



This part of the hill yielded a Yellowhammer's nest, built 

 of dry grass at the foot of a Yew-bush, and a Linnet's nest 

 with one egg in the top of a small Yew. 



Having crossed the lane again, we worked our way down- 

 wards amongst the Yew-bushes, when suddenly a bird about 

 the size of a Cuckoo rose from within a few feet of us. From 

 its flight, as well as from its mottled back, we saw that it was 

 a Nightjar. Though we marked the exact spot whence it 

 rose, it was a good while before we discovered two marble- 

 like eggs, mottled with ash-grey and yellowish brown, laid 

 upon the bare ground without the faintest trace of a nest. 

 More than once we must have almost stepped upon them. 

 We withdrew from the place for a while, and on our return 

 we found that the bird had come back. As she sat on the 

 ground, her mottled-brown back almost exactly resembled a 

 log of wood. Her eye was half shut, the sunlight being too 

 strong for a bnd whose habits are nocturnal. 



From a large Yew near the foot of the bank a Wood- 

 pigeon rose with a great flapping, leaving her two white eggs 

 in a shallow nest of sticks on one of the side boughs of the 

 Yew. 



Amongst the Yews on this shoulder of the hill we gathered 

 the Dwarf Dark-winged Orchis, a species not very abundant 

 round Keigate. Its sepals and petals are dark purple and 

 green, its lip white with raised purple spots. Here, too, we 

 saw the Bee-orchis coming up, but we were a fortnight too 

 early to find it in flower. Some remarkably fine Fly-orchises 

 were gathered m the hedge-row at the foot of the steep slope. 



