106 A BIRD COLLECTOR’S MEDLEY. 
that have reached me as to its presence. Still, it is a bird one cannot 
overlook if it is present, and I am inclined to think that it is not. So far, 
the Nightingale, which breeds freely, especially in the lanes leading to the 
woods, is the best member of the Sylviide that I have myself identified ; 
but I was much excited once over the story of a shrewd and by no 
means over-confident observer, who stated that in a certain coppice he 
had seen two small Warblers of the Yellow family, like ordinary Willow- 
Wrens, but with strikingly light-coloured rumps, and a song that he did 
not recognize. This information was given at a meeting of the College 
Natural History Society, but not by a boy, and I suggested that perhaps 
the strangers were Bonelli’s Warblers, having in my mind’s eye a vivid 
recollection of the lemon rump of a skin shown me by Mr. Gurney at 
the Norwich Museum some years before. I went twice myself to see 
the birds, but I had not the finder with me, and it is doubtful whether 
I ever reached the spot. 
These woods are no less satisfactory from the point of view of the 
entomologist. The Purple Emperor has at all events been seen in them, 
and the Purple Hairstreak is common, while as for White Admirals, I 
have seen three captured at one sweep of the net! The Marble White also 
occurs in small numbers; the large Pearl-bordered Fritillary 1s common. 
The Pearl-bordered Likeness was also common once, and two soulless 
hirelings from London are said to have captured three hundred in a week. 
Since then none have been seen. 
