Sp. 39. 
Sp. 40. 
Sr. 41. 
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making its first appearance in the last week of April. Like the 
rest of its tribe it is extremely shy and very difficult to get 
sight of, though when near easily recognized by its note, which 
consists of a shrill shivering cry repeated at intervals from the 
thickest parts of the wood. It resides for the most part in 
copses and gardens, building its nest in some low shrub at the 
height of about four feet from the ground. This is of a very 
loose and flimsy structure, and composed of dry bents with the 
addition of a small quantity of wool placed in patches on its 
exterior surface; within, it is lined with a scanty supply of white 
hairs. The eggs are five in number, white, spotted chiefly towards 
the greater end with small dots of brown, and larger irregular 
stains of the same colour. Incubation commences about the 
20th of May, and the young broods are fledged in June, but 
the note of the parent birds is continued till the middle or even 
till the end of July. Montagu has stated very accurately the 
several points of difference between this species and the preceding, 
which, if attended to, will always serve to distinguish them from 
each other. Latham’s figure, in his first supplement, is incorrect 
in representing the upper parts of the plumage of a deep brown. 
whereas they are wholly cinereous. 
S. Rubecula, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. p.215. 
Repsreast.—This species continues in song the whole year 
round, excepting in times of severe frost. 
S. Phenicurus, Temm. Man. @Ornith. p.220. 
Repstart.—A very abundant species throughout Cambridgeshire 
where it arrives the middle of April. It is particularly constant 
in the time of its first appearance, perhaps more so than any 
other bird, as I do not ever remember to have noticed its arrival 
before the twelfth or later than the sixteenth of this month. 
S. Hippolais, Temm. Man. d@’Ornith. p. 222. 
Lesser PrrrycHaprs.—Of all our summer visitants this is 
undoubtedly the earliest, often arriving by the middle, or at latest 
by the end of Mareh., Although I have generally observed it to be 
