WILLOW WARBLER 



YELLOW WARBLER WILLOW WREN HUCK-MUCK. 

 PLATE CXXVII. 



Phylloscopus trochilus, . . NEWTON. 



Sylvia trochilus, . ' . . PENNANT. SELBY. JENYNS. 



Motacilla trochilus, . . . MONTAGU. LINNAEUS. 



THE nest of this common summer visitor is very large 

 for the size of the bird, of an oval but rather flat 

 shape, though it varies in form, according to the situation in 

 which it is placed, being domed or semi-domed, and is built 

 of moss, leaves, or fern and dry grass, a hollow being left 

 in the side for the ingress of the bird. It is lined with a 

 profusion of feathers, and with hair, the former being the 

 innermost, and is pretty firmly compacted. It is placed on 

 the ground, generally in woods, or among the long grass, 

 brushwood, or weeds on the bank of some wooded hedge 

 by the outside of a wood, or the edge of a pathway or open 

 place in such. One has been met with in the ivy on a 

 wall, and another in a field, several yards from the fence. 

 Mr. James Croome informs me of one placed two yards 

 from a fence, in long grass, which having been destroyed, a 

 second was built, and a third, the second having been 

 also accidentally destroyed. The nest is rather carefully 

 concealed. 



The eggs, of a rotund form, but varying much in size 



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