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DABTFOBD WAEBLEE. 



FURZE WREN. 



PLATE CXXX. 



Sylvia provinciates, SCHLEQEL. 



Sylvia Dartfordiensis, LATHAM. 



Motacilla provinciate, GMELES. 



Melizophilux provinciate, SZLBT. 



THE nest, which is slight in its make, is placed in a furze bush, to 

 the stems of which it is attached, at a height of about two feet from 

 the ground. It is built of dry stalks and grass, mixed with bits of 

 the gorse; the materials though in reality firmly compacted are appa- 

 rently but loosely put together, and have a slight interweaving of wool. 



Two broods appear to be reared in the year, for Montagu found the 

 nest and eggs after the middle of July, and saw another pair of birds 

 at the same time which appeared to have a nest near, the earlier brood 

 being hatched early in May. 



The eggs are of a whitish grey ground colour, slightly tinged with 

 green, speckled all over with olive brown and ash-colour; near the 

 larger end the markings are more run together, and form a sort of 

 zone. 



One variety is pale yellowish grey, with some small streaks and a 

 few dull dusky greenish blots. 



A second is of a greyish white, mottled with yellowish, and hand- 

 somely marked with a band of dark green at the thick end. 



