THE WARBLERS 



the wings and tail are brown, and the under parts white shading into gray upon the 

 breast and flanks. 



A more skulking species than the last is the garden warbler (S. sali- 

 caria), which arrives in its summer haunts in Europe about the same 

 date as the blackcap. It is rather a retiring bird, and is consequently 

 often overlooked. It has a sweet song, generally poured forth from the centre of 

 some thick bush or other cover; its nest is of dry stems and moss, lined with fibres 

 and a few hairs; its eggs are greenish white blotched with gray and olive brown. 



BARRED WARBLER, GARDEN WARBLER, AND BLACKCAP. 

 (One-half natural size.) 



The garden warbler is partial to fruit, but we have not seen it strip the berries from 

 the elder bushes in the same way as the blackcap. The adult male has the upper 

 parts olive brown, darker and grayer on the wings and tail, and the under parts 

 grayish white. 



Among the sweetest songsters that visit the gardens and shrub- 

 Blackcap 



benes of Europe is this slim and attractive species (S. atricapilla), 



which arrives in the British Isles in April, and at once takes up its abode in orchards 

 and woodlands. The male bird upon its first arrival frequently sings in highly 



