ii2 CHIFF CHAFF. 



CHIFF CHAFF. 



LESSER PETTYCHAPS. LEAST WILLOW WREN. 

 PLATE CXXIX. 



Sylvia mfa, TEMMINCK. 



Motacilla hippolais, MONTAGU. 

 Sylvia hippolaii, LATHAM. JENYNS. SELMV. 



rilHE nest, which is arched over, is skilfully constructed 

 -*- of various indiscriminate materials, according to the 

 situation it is placed in, fern, moss, leaves, grasses, 

 the bark of the birch tree, the shells of chrysalides, 

 wool, and the down of flowers, with sometimes feathers 

 and a few hairs for lining for the whole of the interior; 

 it is arched over more than half-way, the other portion 

 of the upper half being left open by the side; if the 

 roofing be removed, even three or four times, the patient 

 little architect will renew it. It is placed on the ground, 

 generally, but not always, in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of trees, or on a hedge bank, or near a brook, 

 or on the moss-clad stump of a tree, beneath the shelter 

 of the trailing boughs of some bramble, furze, or other 

 bush, or clod of earth. Mr. Henry Doubleday has found 

 one at a height of two feet from the ground, in some 

 fern; and Mr. Hewitson mentions another, which was 

 built in some ivy against a garden wall, at a like 

 elevation. Occasionally the nest is placed in a row of 



