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LESSER WHITETHROAT. 



PLATE CXXV. 



Sylvia sylvidla, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Sylvia dumelorum, LATHAM 



Sylvia curruca, TEMMINCK. 



Molacilla curruca, LlNN^US. 



llotacilla sylriella. BEWICK. 



JMotacilla dumetorum, GMELIN. 



Curruca sylviella, FLEMING. 



Curruca garruLi, GOULD. 



nest, which is begun about three weeks after 

 the arrival of the birds, is of a slight construction, 

 and is made of dry grass and a little wool, or moss, 

 lined, but rarely, with small fibres, roots and hairs; it 

 is rather loosely interwoven, and is bound together with 

 spiders' webs and such like materials. It is sometimes 

 placed among the herbage on a bank, as well as in 

 the lower part of a hedge, or in some low shrub a 

 nut tree, gooseberry bush, black-thorn, broom, wood- 

 bine, and among briers and brambles, generally at a 

 height, in the latter, of about four or five feet from 

 the ground, but sometimes as much as six, seven, eight, 

 or even ten. 



The eggs, exceedingly pretty, are of a white or 

 greenish white colour, spotted most numerously at the 

 larger end, and sometimes in the way of a zone with 



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