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berries: to these Meyer adds the caterpillar of the 
cabbage butterfly, which he says, though rejected by 
most birds, is eagerly devoured by the Garden War- 
bler. 
Yarrell mentions, quoting a note from Herbert’s 
edition of White’s Selborne, that the nest has been 
found in a row of peas and pea-sticks in a garden: 
the usual place, however, appears to be in some low 
bush or amongst rank herbage: it is made of much 
the same materials as that of the Blackcap. 
The Garden Warbler has the beak dark brown; 
irides hazel; general colour of all the upper parts 
greyish olive ; quill primaries and secondaries dusky; 
tertials not quite so dark, and narrowly edged with 
olive-green; tail the same. The under parts are 
nearly white, inclining to olive-green on the flanks. 
The egg is something like, but rather smaller 
than, that of the Blackcap: those in my collection, 
if genuine (I did not take them myself), have much 
more rufous spots. Hewitson himself, however, 
seems to be in some doubt on this subject; so I can 
only advise any of my readers who are collecting 
eggs, if they are fortunate enough to find a nest of 
the Garden Warbler, to be very careful in identi- 
fying the birds before they take the eggs. 
WuitETHROAT, Curruca cinerea. The White- 
throat excites the ire of the gardener more than any 
other bird, except perhaps some of the Tits, and 
probably not without some cause; for in the autumn, 
