S8 British Birds, 



«ong, and is a lively little fellow, in incessant motion. 

 Very restless and uneasy too, when you are near its 

 nest, and particularly if the young are hatched. The 

 nest is domed externally like the one last named, but 

 always lined with feathers, which the last never is. 

 It is built on a bank or bankside, among grass or 

 other herbage, and contains five to seven eggs, white, 

 with many small speckles of red, not very dark. 

 Tiiere is an instance on record, in which this bird did 

 not leave its nest though it had been bodily removed 

 from its site on the ground, and even before any eggs 

 were laid or the nest itself completed — one of the 

 most remarkable cases of the kind known. — Fig. 11, 

 plate IIL 



CHIFFCHAFF— (P/^7//^.y^^/2/j collybita ; formerly, 

 Sylvia hippolais). 



Lesser Petty chaps, Least Willow Wren. — An "early 

 bird " this is in coming to us in spring-time, and able 

 and willing enough to take its substitute for the 

 *' early worm." The two syllables of its name, differ- 

 ently accented, form its song. Its nest is like that of 

 the Willow Wren, with the addition of a few dead 

 leaves outside, and abundance of feathers inside, and 

 is also placed on (or very near) the ground on a 

 hedgebank. The Chiffchaff lays six eggs, white, with 

 specks of dark purplish-red. — Fig. 12, plate III. 



YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER— (P//;//^j^^/«j 

 sjcperciliosiis). 



Very rare and accidental as a visitor. 



