NATURE'S CAROL SINGERS. 



ground a- 

 mongst coarse 

 grass and 

 weeds entwin- 

 ing themselves 

 round the 

 slender twigs 

 of small bushes 

 in woods, plan- 

 t a t i o n s, or- 

 chards, hedge- 

 banks, and by 

 small alder- 

 fringedstreams. 

 I have, how- 

 ever, some- 

 times seen it in 

 a hole in a dry 

 stone wall at 

 a considerable 

 height from 

 the ground 

 and on one 

 occasion found 

 a nest amongst 

 some ivy grow- 

 ing against a 

 stable wall in 

 the Highlands 

 at an eleva- 



