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localities, is suspended from the reeds in a similar 

 manner. The eggs, of which there are four or 

 five, are of a pale greenish white, spotted and 

 speckled with ash grey and reddish brown. This 

 species is abundant in the marshes of Holland 

 during summer ; it also visits Germany, Belgium, 

 and the low flat lands of France, even those as 

 near us as Calais. 



WARBLER, ORPHEAN. 



SYLYIA OBPHEA, Gould. 



The Zoologist of 1849, gives an account of 

 a specimen of this bird which was shot in a 

 small plantation near Wetherby, in Yorkshire. 

 Its habits resemble those of the Whitethroat. 

 In Italy it is a summer visitor, as it is also 

 in Switzerland and France, inhabiting in the 

 latter country the forests and dry districts of 

 Lorraine and Provence. It feeds on small insects 

 and berries. The nest, which is large and open, is 

 occasionally placed among blocks of stone on the 

 ground, but bushes and other situations are fre- 

 quently chosen. The outside is composed of small 

 twigs and a few leaves, entwined with long bents 

 of grass and loose horse-hairs. The eggs, four or 

 five in number, are white, tinged with pale green, 

 and dotted with small spots and specks of reddish 

 yellow and light brown. 



