60 BRITISH BIRDS, THEIR EGGS AND NESTS. 
bents loosely twined but bound together with wool, &c., and 
lined with hair and fibrous roots, may be found among rank 
growth of various herbage, or in a bush, or in a row of rodded 
peas. The usual four or five eggs are of muddled-white, stained and 
spotted with greenish brown, lighter or darker.—/¥g. 7, plate ITI. 
62. WHITE-TH ROAT—(Curruca cinerea). 
Nettle-creeper—Another pleasant singer, but with occasional 
harsher notes, anda chiding one, not unlike the Sedgebird’s, when 
uneasy or irritated. This is the usual Haychat of the country — 
lads, and fully as often called the Nettle-creeper; the former 
name being due to the fabric of its nest, the latter to its habits 
of twining in and out of the leaves and coarse herbage which 
abound among its haunts. Little description of the nest is needed, 
except that it seems slighter, and is thinner at the sides than 
those last named, but still it is not Jess compact. The eggs vary 
a good deal in appearance, but there is still such a family likeness 
among them that they are easily recognizable by most egg- 
fanciers. Green, in different shades, is the predominating colour. 
—Fig. 8, plate III. 
63. LESSER WHITE-THROAT—(Curruca sylvielia). 
Not so common a bird nearly, as the last, and rising higher in 
the bushes and shrubberies it frequents than it. It sings low and 
pleasantly when you are near enough to hear it, and very inces- 
santly, but its more frequently heard notes are rather harsh. The 
nest, found among low bushes and brambles, is like the White- 
throat’s, and the fcur or five eggs laid in it are white, speckled, 
most at the large end, with ash or light brown.— Fig. 9, plate IIT. 
64. WOOD WARBLER—(Sylvia sibilatriz). 
Wood Wren, Yellow Wren.—This bird was long confounded 
with the Willow Wren to be named next. It comes to us for 
