ii4 DARTFORD WARBLER. 



DARTFORD WARBLER. 



FURZE WREN. 

 PLATE CXXX. 



Sylvia provincialis, SCHLEGEL. 



Sylvia Dartfordiensis, LATHAM. 



Motadlla provincialis, GMELIN. 



Melizophilus provincialis, SELBY. 



rriHE nest, which is slight in its make, is placed in 



a furze bush, to the stems of which it is attached, 

 at a height of about two feet from the ground. It is 

 built of dry stalks and grass, mixed with bits of the 

 gorse; the materials, though in reality firmly compacted, 

 are apparently but loosely put together, and have a 

 slight interweaving of wool. 



Two broods appear to be reared in the year, for 

 Montagu found the nest and eggs after the middle of 

 July, and saw another pair of birds at the same time 

 which appeared to have a nest near, the earlier brood 

 being hatched early in May. 



The eggs are of a whitish-grey ground colour, 

 slightly tinged with green, speckled all over with olive- 

 brown and ash-colour; near the larger end the markings 

 are more run together, and form a sort of zone. 



One variety is pale yellowish grey, with some 



