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WILLOW WARBLER. 



YELLOW WAKBLEK. WILLOW WREN. HUCK-MUCK. 



PLATE CXXVH. 



Sylvia trochilus, PENDANT. SELBT. JEimrs. 



Motacilla trockilus, MONTAGU. LINNJEUS. 



UTotacilla acredula, LraN.su8. 



Regulus trochilus, FLEMTIT&. 



THE nest, which is very large for the size of the bird, of an oval 

 but rather flat shape, though it varies in form, probably according to 

 the situation in which it is placed, is built of moss, leaves, or fern, 

 and grass, a hollow being left in the side for the ingress and egress 

 of the bird. It is lined with 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. James Croome, Esq. writes me word also of one placed 

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

 a second was built four yards from the hedge; and a third, the second 

 having been also accidentally destroyed, about the same distance from 

 it. The nest is carefully concealed. 



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

 are from four to six or seven in number, and mostly light pinkish 

 white, with numerous small specks of pale rusty red; some are less 

 thoroughly spotted, and some most marked at the larger end, while 

 others are only sparingly dotted; they are a little polished: pure white 

 ones have been met with. The female bird sits very close upon them, 

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