PLATE I 

 GARDEN WARBLER. Sylvia horteusis 



May 2 is/, 1898. Mildenhall, Suffolk. The nest which is depicted in the Plate 

 was chosen from some eight or nine which I examined one day in a hazel 

 plantation and the hedge round it. Most of the nests were quite impossible 

 to photograph without cutting away the surrounding branches and so 

 destroying the character of the site. But I found two which I could 

 photograph with a little trouble, after some searching. The birds were very 

 tame, and sat on their nests while I had a good look at them. The copse 

 was filled with the sweet plaintive song of the males, while now and then a 

 Nightingale would burst forth into melody. On a second visit to this copse, 

 in July, I found no fewer than five nests containing fresh eggs, evidently 

 second broods. 



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