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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.—/%vg. 10, plate ILL. 
65. WILLOW WREN—(Sylvia trochilus). 
Willow Warbler, Yellow Wren, Scotch Wren, Hay-bird, Huck- 
muck, Ground Wren.—A well known little bird to the observant. 
It sings “a soft and pleasing” song, 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 neveris. 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. 
There 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.— ig. 11, plate ILL. 
66. CHIFFCHAFEF—(Sylvia hippolais). 
Lesser Pettychaps, Least Willow Wren.—An “early bird” 
-his isin coming to us in spring time, and able and willing enough 
to take its substitute for the “worm.” ‘The two syllables of its 
name, differently accented, form its song. Its nest is like that of 
the Willow Wren, with the addition of a few dead leaves outside 
