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island. Notwithstanding its large size, it might easily 

 pass unnoticed, skulking as it does in the low herbage, and 

 seldom exposing itself to view. Its song, too, by most 

 would be taken for that of the Black Ouzel; and even 

 now it might have escaped detection had not the accurate 

 ear and experienced eye of Mr. Robson been engaged in 

 the pursuit." July, 1847. 



Since the capture of the specimen thus referred to, 

 several others have been obtained. Mr. Newman has re- 

 corded in the Zoologist, page 3476, an example obtained 

 at Dartford in May, 1852. The Rev. F. O. Morris has 

 noticed one killed by the side of a pond near Sitting- 

 bourne on the 4th of May, 1853. I have had in my 

 hand for examination two specimens of this bird in the 

 flesh, and but recently dead, one of them killed between 

 Tunbridge and Sevenoaks, the other at Erith; the op- 

 portunity of seeing both of which was supplied me by Mr. 

 Green, a well-known dealer in birds and eggs ; and Mr. 

 Butterfield, the bird preserver of Seymour Place, has lent 

 me a nest of this bird which was taken near Dorking. 

 This nest in its form and materials exactly resembles the 

 nest of the Reed Warbler, figured and serving as a 

 vignette to the account of that bird, a few pages further 

 on in this volume, excepting only that it is as much 

 larger and stronger as the greater size of this Thrush-like 

 Warbler would require. 



The eggs are four or five in number, measuring seven- 

 eighths of an inch in length by rather more than five- 

 eighths in breadth ; pale greenish white, spotted and 

 speckled with ash grey and reddish brown. They are 

 correctly figured in the third edition of Mr. Hewitson's 

 work on the Eggs of British Birds, Plate 32, figures 3 

 and 4; and by Thienemann, Plate 21, fig. 5. 



The whole length of an adult male was eight inches ; 



