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localities, is suspended from the reeds in a similar 
manner. ‘The eggs, of which there are four or 
five, are of a pale greenish white, spotted and 
speckled with ash grey and reddish brown. This 
species is abundant in the marshes of Holland 
during summer; it also visits Germany, Belgium, 
and the low flat lands of France, even those as 
near us as Calais. 
WARBLER, ORPHEAN. 
SYLVIA ORPHEA, Gould. 
The Zoologist of 1849, gives an account of 
a specimen of this bird which was shot in a 
small plantation near Wetherby, in Yorkshire. 
Its habits resemble those of the Whitethroat. 
In Italy it is a summer visitor, as it is also 
in Switzerland and France, inhabiting in the 
latter country the forests and dry districts of 
Lorraine and Provence. It feeds on small insects 
and berries. The nest, which is large and open, is 
occasionally placed among blocks of stone on the 
ground, but bushes and other situations are fre- 
quently chosen. The outside is composed of small 
twigs and a few leaves, entwined with long bents 
of grass and loose horse-hairs. The eggs, four or 
five in number, are white, tinged with pale green, 
and dotted with small spots and specks of reddish 
yellow and light brown. 
