WHITE THR OA T. 1 03 



WHITETHROAT. 



COMMON WHUETHROAT. MUGGY. XETTLE-CREEPER. 

 PLATE CXXIV. 



Svlria cintrca, PEXNANT. JENYNS 



Motadlla syhia, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Curruca sylvia, FLEMING. 



Curruca cinerea, GOULD. 



THE nest, thin in width and loosely compacted, 

 though still elastic, and not flimsy, is placed near 

 the ground, not more than two or three feet above 

 it, in a low hedge, or sometimes in a bramble, furze, 

 sloe, wild rose, or other bush, as also frequently 

 among nettles or other tall weeds or herbaceous plants 

 on the ground, or beside a bank ; Mr. Jesse mentions 

 one which built in a vine close to a window. It is 

 for the most part a 'straw-built shed,' composed chiefly 

 of dried stalks of grasses, though other plants are 

 occasionally used, and lined with finer portions of the 

 same, and a good deal of hair of various kinds, with 

 which it is often, though not always, thickly woven 

 on the inside, giving it accordingly more or less con- 

 sistency. The same situation is frequently resorted to 

 year after year; a trifling disturbance will cause the 

 owner to desert it before the eggs are laid, but the 

 reverse is the case afterwards; much care is not taken 



