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DWELLERS IN NESTS 



PART III. 



British Warblers Common British Warblers Difficulty in 

 distinguishing Certain Warblers Making Observations on 

 Birds Classification of the Commoner Warblers The 

 Rev. W. Fowler's ' Year with the Birds ' Classification of 

 the Commoner British Warblers The Whitethroats The 

 Garden Warbler The Blackcap The Chiffchaff The 

 Willow Warbler The Reed and Sedge Warblers An Idle 

 Hour with the Birds A Favoured Spot 'Among the 

 Golden Reed-beds 'The Spotted and Pied Flycatchers 

 The Wagtails White and Pied Wagtails Gray and Yellow 

 Wagtails Bird-stufTers and Taxidermists A Specimen of 

 Provincial Taxidermy Taxidermists and Naturalists 

 Messrs. Butt and Ward The Tit Family The Long-tailed 

 Tit The Great Tit The Blue Tit Marsh and Coal Tits 

 Feeding Tits in Winter The Bearded Tit. 



THE British warblers, or Sylviinae, as they are 

 more scientifically called, comprise a large 

 number of birds, no less than twenty different 

 varieties having at one time and another been 

 observed in these islands. I think it as well to 

 give the list in extenso, although many of them 

 are exceedingly rare, and only one of them, the 

 Dartford warbler, can be called a resident, all the 



