60 OUR BIRD ALLIES. 
eggs are four or five in number, and are of a peculiar 
greenish-grey hue, spotted and marbled with darker 
markings. 
First cousin to the whitethroat is the pretty little 
Chiffchaff, or Lesser Pettychaps, one of the very 
The Chiftchaff. 
smallest of all our British birds. Notwithstanding 
its diminutive proportions, however, it is a most 
useful little creature, destroying insects literally by 
hundreds, and so benefiting both the farmer and the 
horticulturist. 
The Rey. C. A. Johns mentions that for two 
