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GARDEN WARBLER. 



GREATER PETTYCHAl'S. 

 PLATE CXXIII. 



Sylria /ior/cnsis, LATHAM. BECHSTEIN. 



Citrrucii !ior/i'i:sis, SKI. MY. 



rriHE nest is made of goose-grass, and other grasses, 

 straws, and small roots, mixed sometimes with a 

 small quantity of moss, and lined with a little wool or 

 horse-hair, and fine fibres of plants. It is attached to 

 the branches with spider-cots and the cocoons of 

 chrysalides. It is generally placed between the branches 

 of some low black-thorn, white-thorn, or other bush, 

 not far from the ground, as also at times on the ground 

 among the taller wild plants. It is rather loosely con- 

 structed. One is said to have been found in an open 

 field among some tares, and another has been taken 

 in a row of peas in a garden by Mr. Yarrell. Mr. 

 Jesse mentions his having found one three times in 

 succession among some ivy growing against a wall. 

 It is not very carefully concealed. 



The eggs are four or five in number, of a dull 

 yellowish grey, or pale purple brown, spotted and 

 blotted with darker markings of the latter colour. 

 James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has 



