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LESSEE WHITETHBOAT. 



PLATE CXXV. 



Sylvia sylviella, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Syh'ia dumetorum, LATHAM. 



Sylvia curruca, TEMMTNCK. 



Motacilla curruca, LINNJEUB. 



Jtfotacilla sylviella, BEWICK. 



Motacilla dumetorum, G-MELIN. 



Curruca sylviella, FLEMING. 



Curruca garrula, GOULD. 



THE nest, which is begun about three weeks after the arrival of the 

 birds, is of a slight construction, and is made of dry grass and a little 

 wool, or moss, lined, but rarely, with small fibres, roots and hairs; it is 

 rather loosely interwoven, and is bound together with spiders' webs 

 and such like materials. It is sometimes placed among the herbage on 

 a bank, as well as in the lower part of a hedge, or in some low shrub 

 a nut tree, gooseberry bush, black-thorn, broom, woodbine, and among 

 briers and brambles, generally at a height, in the latter, of about four 

 or five feet from the ground, but sometimes as much as six, seven, 

 eight, or even ten. 



The eggs are of a greenish white colour, spotted most numerously 

 at the larger end, and sometimes in the way of a zone with small 

 dots and patches of brown and light grey. James Dalton, Esq., of 

 Worcester College, Oxford, has forwarded me a specimen for the use 

 of this work. 



Incubation lasts from twelve to fourteen days, commencing about the 

 20th. of May. Two, and sometimes even possibly three, broods are 

 reared in the season. 



The young birds in their nestling plumage nearly resemble the old 

 ones, but the colour of the head and the back are more uniform. 



