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COMMON VVHITETHROAT 



Whitethroat: Sylvia cinerea. Locally, "Haychat"or"Hayjack." 

 A very common summer visitor, arriving early in April and 

 staying till September. 



I have, on one oc- 

 casion, known it occur 

 in Essex in mid-win- 

 ter, a fresh specimen 

 havino^ been found 

 dead by the gardener 

 on a heap of coals in 

 an outhouse at the 

 residence of my friend 

 Mr. H. Corder, at 

 Great Baddow, on or 

 about Dec. 22nd, 1886, 

 after a heavy snow- 

 storm. This is a 

 most remarkable oc- 

 currence. 



I find the following 

 among Dr. Bree's 

 notes (32a) : — "1871 

 — A nest with four 

 eggs in quick-hedge 

 in garden ; began to 

 sit May 23rd ; young hatched June 3rd ; skedaddled on the 14th." 



Mr. Stacey, of Dunmow, has a remarkable variety which has the feathers of 

 the bastard-wing white on both sides. 



Blackcap 



A fairly- 

 common sum- 

 mer migrant, 

 occurring, I 

 believe, 

 throughout 

 the county. It 

 arrives about 

 the middle of 

 April and de- 

 parts in Sep- 

 tember. 



Mr. Buxton 

 says (47. 90) it is 

 " common in the 

 Forest and in 

 gardens, but es- 

 pecially in Wan- blackcap, y^. 



G2 



Sylvia atricapilla. 



