Their Eggs and Nests. 87 



edifice, lined with hair and fine fibres, and contains 

 four or five eggs of varying colour and mottlings — 

 white, greenish, or tinged with a peculiar shade of 

 faint red, being the ground-colour, with markings of a 

 reddish brown. — Fig. Q, plate III. 



ORPHEAN \N KKBIjER— {Sylvia Orphea). 

 Very rarely noticed in this country. 



WOOD ^^YI^—{Phylloscopus sibilatrix ; formerly, 

 Sylvia sibilatrix). 



Wood Warbler, Yellow Wren. — This bird was lonor 

 confounded with the Willow Wren, to be named next 

 It comes to us for the summer, the males (as is the 

 case with so many of the Warblers) coming first by 

 several days. It is abundant enough in some well- 

 wooded parts of the kingdom, and its song is only 

 called such by courtesy. It builds a domed nest ; that 

 is one covered in above, and with a side entrance ; on 

 the ground amid grass or weeds. It is made of grass, 

 dead leaves, moss, and lined with hair and soft grass. 

 The eggs are six in number, white, and very much 

 speckled and spotted with dark red-purple. — Fig. 10, 

 plate III. 



WILLOW ^^^'^'^—{Phylloscopustrochilus; formerly, 

 Sylvia trochiiiis). 



Willow Warbler, Yellow Wren, Scotch Wren, Ha}^- 

 bird, Huckmuck, Ground Wren. — A well known little 

 bird to the observant. It sings " a soft and pleasing " 



