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The same cause has reduced its numbers at Am-, 

 berley, and in most of its favourite haunts. These 

 birds and their beautiful nests may, however, still 

 be found during the month of May in the reedy 

 ditches a little to the westward of the old wooden 

 bridge on the Adur, about a mile above Shoreham. 

 NIGHTINGALE, Philomela luscinia. Abundant 

 during the summer in woods, copses and hedges, 

 but perhaps more numerous on the clay soils of 

 the weald than anywhere else. In this as an 

 insectivorous bird it forms an exception to a 

 general rule ; every other species of the dentiros- 

 tral tribe, resident as well as migratory, being, 

 comparatively, but sparingly distributed in that 

 district. 



BLACKCAP, Curruca atricapilla. Found in 

 thickets and groves during the summer, but not 

 plentiful anywhere. Rare in the weald. 



GARDEN WARBLER, Curruca hortensis. In its 

 habits and haunts resembles the last species, but 

 is certainly of less frequent occurrence. 



COMMON WHITETHROAT, Curruca cinerea. 

 Common. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT, Curruca sylviella. In 

 the neighbourhood of Chichester, Bognor, Pagham 

 and Worthing, this bird is as numerous as the last 

 species, and appears even more so ; its garrulous 

 song and bustling flight at once attracting obser- 



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