44, BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
places, but woods and game-coverts where there is 
abundant undergrowth. It is most plentiful in hang- 
ing woods on the banks of streams. The nest, always 
well hidden, is usually placed in briers or brambles, 
although we have found it concealed among the outer 
leaves of a large rhododendron. In common with 
many of the Warblers, this species is partial to soft 
fruit, and to obtain it often resorts to gardens. 
GARDEN WARBLER. 
SYLVIA HORTENSIS, Bechstein. 
The Garden Warbler is one of our latest summer 
migrants, and does not arrive until some days after 
the Blackcap. It resembles that species in many of its 
habits, and may be found in similar situations, but is 
in most places less common. Mr. R. Newstead, senior, 
however, finds them in equal numbers at Ince,! and 
in the neighbourhood of Alderley Edge the Garden 
Warbler is far more plentiful than the Blackcap. 
It is not to be met with on the treeless hills in the 
east of the county, but is extremely abundant in the 
wooded valley of the Dane, near Wincle, and in the 
Goyt Valley above Taxal, localities in which the Black- 
cap is very rare. 
GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. 
REGULUS CRISTATUS, K. L. Koch. 
The Golden-crested Wren, a resident in Cheshire, 
breeds sparingly throughout the Plain wherever there 
1 Dobie, op, cit. p. 289. 
