THE LESSER WHITETHROAT. 



This species loves high, thick hedges 

 rather than large woods, and builds its 

 nest, which is a slight and flimsy struc- 

 ture made of dead grass, stalks, and lined 

 with horsehair, in hedges, briar, bramble, 

 gorse, and other bushes. 



The eggs, four or five in number, are 



LESSER WHITETHROAT'S NEST 

 AND EGGS. 



white or light creamy white, with the 

 faintest suggestion of green in ground 

 colour, spotted and speckled with ash- 

 grey and greenish-brown. 



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