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French-grey spots. Having duly wrapped it in paper and ensconced it 
behind a bush, we returned with fresh ardour to the scrub; but, though 
two perspiring bipeds worked the remaining portions for several hours 
with all the zeal begotten of success, they saw nothing else worth shooting 
at, except a pair of Pied Flycatchers which appeared towards evening on 
some tall horned-poppies near the beach. Two days later I bagged an 
adult Bluethroat within fifty yards of the same spot, and in the afternoon 
we thought at one time that we had stumbled on an Aquatic Warbler. 
However, such portions of it as survived a combined bombardment on the 
DOING THE BUSHES. 
part of two excited guns turned out to be the relics of a Sedge-Warbler, 
and another disappointment followed when I shot a Wryneck under the 
impression that it was a Barred Warbler. A Wryneck seems at first 
sight an unlikely bird to encounter in such a place, but even Green 
Woodpeckers have sometimes been got there, and we ourselves saw one, not 
far off, the following year. 
The Bluethroat is the bird in search of which most collectors first 
visit the bushes, but they do not all secure one. Some years none are 
seen, and, moreover, the date of their arrival varies much. It requires 
also a quick eye to distinguish them on the wing, the orange on the 
tail showing less than one might suppose from looking at the stuffed bird. 
