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warbler, which had been chased and caught by 

 a boy near Holloway. Mr. Blyth, who saw it 

 in the following December, pronounced it to be 

 without doubt a female Orphean Warbler. As 

 the bird when caught was unable to fly, it is 

 evident that a pair must have nested in the 

 neighbourhood. I have seen a nest and eggs 

 which were taken in Notton Wood, near Wake- 

 field, in June, 1864, which certainly appertained 

 to none of our common warblers, and the eggs 

 could not be distinguished from well-authen- 

 ticated eggs of Sylvia orphea? Mr. Howard 

 Saunders has reported a similar nest and eggs 

 from East Grinstead. The eggs differ from 

 those of the Blackcap and Garden Warbler in 

 being white, spotted, chiefly at the larger end, 

 with ash-grey. The bird may be briefly de- 

 scribed as a large form of the Blackcap, ex- 

 ceeding it by half an inch in total length, and 

 by a quarter of an inch in length of wing, the 

 male having the black crown which characterizes 



1 Cf. " Handbook of British Birds," p. 106. 



