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WILLOW WARBLER. 



YKLLOW \VAKBLKK. WILLOW WREN. HUCK-MUCK. 

 PLATE CXXVII. 



Sylvia trochilus, PENNANT. SELBY. JENYNS. 



Mo/aciUa trochilus, MONTAGU. LiNNMms. 



Motairtla acrcdula, LlNN^US. 



Rtgitlus Irnchilns. FLEMING. 



E nest, which is very large for the size of the 

 -*- bird, of an oval but rather flat shape, though it 

 varies in form, probably according to the situation in 

 which it is placed, is built of moss, leaves, or fern 

 and grass, a hollow being left in the side for the ingress 

 and egress of the bird. It is lined with feathers, and 

 with hair, the former being the innermost, and is pretty 

 firmly compacted. It is placed on the ground, generally 

 in woods, or among the long grass, brushwood, or 

 weeds on the bank of some wooded hedge by the outside 

 of a wood, or the edge of a pathway or open place in 

 such. One has been met with in the ivy on a wall, 

 and another in a field, several yards from the fence. 

 James Croome, Esq. writes me word also of one placed 

 two yards from a fence, in long grass, which having 

 been destroyed, a second was built four yards from the 

 hedge; and a third, the second having been also acci- 



