no IV I L LOW WARBLER. 



dentally destroyed, about the same distance from it. 

 The nest is rather carefully concealed. 



The eggs, of a rotund form, but varying much in 

 size and marks, are from four to six or seven in number, 

 and mostly light pinkish white, with numerous small 

 specks of pale rusty red; some are less thoroughly 

 spotted, and some most marked at the larger end, while 

 others are only sparingly dotted; they are a little 

 polished: pure white ones have been met with. The 

 female bird sits very close upon them, and the male 

 feeds her on the nest, she chattering to him the while, 

 and he to her, and sometimes taking her place in the 

 course of the day, while she searches for food. 



The young are hatched the end of May or begin- 

 ning of June, and are fledged about the middle or end 

 of that month, or the beginning of July. A second 

 brood, if reared, is abroad by the beginning of August. 



One is of a dull greyish white ground with some 

 small spots of yellowish brown at the thick end, and 

 smaller spots of the same throughout. 



Another variety is of a greyish white colour tinged 

 with pinkish yellow, with a band of light reddish-brown 

 spots near the larger end, with smaller and paler spots 

 all over. 



J. R. De C. Wise, Esq., of Lincoln College, Oxford, 

 has favoured me with the loan of the nest and egg of 

 this bird. 



