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PLATE CX. 



Rutidlla phanicurus, . . . MACGILLIVRAY. 

 Sylvia phcenicurus, . . . LATHAM. PENNANT. 

 Phanicura nttidlla, . . . YARRELL. 



THE nest of this summer migrant, which is more or less 

 well concealed, and rather loosely constructed, is built 

 of moss, dry grass, and leaves, and lined with hair and 

 feathers. It is frequently placed in a hole in an old wall, 

 under the eaves of a house, in a hollow or hole in a tree, 

 or even between the branches of one, as also against a 

 wall, if extraneous support is afforded. One has been 

 known to have been placed in a watering-pot, others in 

 flower-pots, and one in a hole in the ground. It is fre- 

 quently placed close to or in the wall of a house, and that 

 where persons are constantly passing, even within reach of 

 the hand. Another has been known also placed on the 

 ground under an inverted flower-pot ; the hen bird success- 

 fully reared her brood, the flower-pot, which was at first 

 unwittingly removed, having been replaced : the circumstance 

 is related by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson in the Zoologist. 

 Bishop Stanley mentions one he had known " built on the 

 narrow space between the gudgeons or narrow upright irons 



