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thickets and hedge-bottoms, but rather uncommon, 

 and rarely seen, though often heard, on account of 

 its habit of running among the low brushwood. 



THE SEDGE WARBLER (Sylvia salicaria), in., 145. 

 Common by the sides of pitsteads. This is the bird 

 so often mistaken in our neighbourhood for the 

 nightingale. No bird takes more care to let us 

 know of its presence; the moment it is disturbed, it 

 begins to sing. 



THE BLACK-CAP WARBLER (Sylvia atricapilla), iii., 150. 

 A most beautiful song-bird, and common in woods. 

 When it arrives, it is fond of mounting high into the 

 trees; the males, like most of the warblers, coming 

 a week or two before the females, and selecting a 

 station, where they sing until their mates arrive. 



THE GARDEN WARBLER (Sylvia hortensis), iii., 152. 

 Unlike the preceding, this bird never gets up high into 

 the trees to sing, nor does it care to warble until the 

 female arrives, when its lovely trill is heard plenti- 

 fully in the low bushes. It will build in gardens 

 among peas. Common in Hough-end Clough and 

 about Urmston. 



THE COMMON WHITETHROAT (Sylvia rinerea), iii., 153. 

 Common everywhere, and apt to warble when on the 

 wing, springing up out of the hedge, with its jar-jar- 

 jar, jee-jee-jee, and in a minute or two diving down 

 into it again. 



