76 WHINCHA T. 



WHINCHAT. 



GRASSCHAT. FLTRZECHAT. 

 PLATE CXIII. 



Sylvia rubelra, PENNANT. 



Motacilla rubelra, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Saxicola rubelra, FLEMING. SELHY. 



Rubetra major, BRISSON. 



(Enanthe secunda, RAY. 



r MHE nest is placed in the lower part of a gorse 

 bush, a few inches above the ground, where the 

 thorns and stalks are dying off, so that the materials 

 of the nest assimilate in appearance to the situation 

 in which it is placed, and it is thus the rather screened 

 from observation. More frequently it is placed in the 

 grass at the foot of it, and has been known in a hedge 

 adjoining a road. Where there are no gorse bushes, 

 it is placed among rough grass in a pasture field, or 

 in a meadow. Henry Stowe, Esq., of Emmanuel College, 

 Cambridge, took one near Brackley in Northamptonshire, 

 built so near the edge of a pond that the nest was 

 quite wet. It is loosely built of stalks of grass and 

 moss, and is lined with finer portions of the former; 

 a layer of wool has been known between the two, and 

 occasionally some hair or leaves: it measures six inches 

 across, and two and a half internally. It is very carefully 



