THE LESSER WHITETHROAT. 



This species loves high, thick hedges 

 rather than large woods, and builds its 

 nest, which is a slight and flimsy struc- 

 ture made of dead grass, stalks, and lined 

 with horsehair, in hedges, briar, bramble, 

 gorse, and other bushes. 



The eggs, four or five in number, are 



LESSER WHITE-THROATS NEST 

 AND EGGS. 



white or light creamy white, with the 

 faintest suggestion of green in ground 

 colour, spotted and speckled with ash- 

 grey and greenish-brown. 



