140 WRENS. 



if only tlie bird can be seen. Its notes, too, are quite 

 distinctive. 



GRASSHOPPER AVARBLER— 5^ inches. Also an halntnal 

 skulker in low {jjiowtii, particularly in marsii lands, hut 

 olive-brown above and white below, of stouter build, 

 and with shorter tail. Note, a stridulous reeling. A 

 summer migrant, and much more widely diffused than 

 the Furze-Wren. 



COIMMON WHITETHROAT— 5i inches. Though resem- 

 bling the Furze-Wren in its creeping ways, its jerky 

 fluttering over bush or hedge, and its excited song de- 

 livered from a top twig, has ashy head, ruddy-brown 

 back, and is white below, particularly on the throat, 

 with a pink flush on the breast. 



