NATURE'S CAROL SINGERS. 



until after it is dark. It also sings on 

 the wing, as well as from the top of a 

 hedge or bramble bush. Last summer I 

 sat down to rest between a number of 

 scattered thorn bushes and a wide old 



WHITETHROAT ON NEST. 



hedgerow on a Surrey hillside. A few 

 moments afterwards a small bird left 

 the hedge and took refuge in one of the 

 bushes about twenty-five yards below 

 me. Its notes and the white line on 

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