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or country name in common, derivable, I believe, from the 
structure of the nest. I mean Hay-jack or Hay-chat; but it is 
I think, much less frequently distinguished by that name than 
the three birds next tobe mentioned. The country-boy’s name 
. for one of these must always be distrusted, as is the case 
also with his designation of other common, but much more 
dissimilar birds. Thus, not to mention other instances, the 
Blackeap proper, the Greater Tom-tit and the Stone-chat are 
all called Blackcap.—The Blackcap Warbler comes to us in spring 
and builds in our gardens and shrubberies as frequently as in 
wilder resorts, but always in places where there is thick foliage 
and plentiful means of concealment. It is a very shy bird and 
very unwilling to be gazed at. If it sees you watching it, you 
soon lose sight of it as it hops and twists from spray to spray 
into the inner and shadiest recesses of its haunt. Its nest, too, 
is studiously concealed, and Mr. Yarrell says it will leave two or 
three just-commenced nests in succession, on light grounds of 
suspicion that it has been noticed in its labours. ‘The nest is a 
benty, and saving for the ties of wool or cobweb, a slightly 
compacted edifice, lmed 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. 6, plate LIT. 
61. GARDEN WARBLER—(Curruca hortensis). 
Pettychaps, Greater Pettychaps.—Inferior to the Blackcap in 
song, as the Blackcap is inferior to the Nightingale, only not at. 
so great a distance. Still it is a sweet songster. It comes to us 
to breed, and frequents thick hedges and the covert afforded by 
our shrubberies and pleasure-plantings in gardens. The nest, 
hke the Blackcap’s in materials and detail, of dry grass-stalks or 
