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of the same kinds, mingled, as the case may be, with 

 thistle-down, feathers, and hair: one was built last year in 

 the trellis-work near the drawing-room of Nafferton Vicarage, 

 a few yards from that of the Spotted Flycatcher; but, 

 though undisturbed, it was not resorted to again this year, 

 as was that of its near neighbour. It is placed in various 

 situations a low bush, or an evergreen, the ivy against a 

 wall, or between the branches of a tree. Many nests are 

 often found in propinquity to each other in the same 

 shrubbery; more than one sometimes even in the same bush. 



The eggs, from four to six, or even seven in number, are 

 of a bluish or purple reddish white, spotted with darker- 

 purple, grey, and blackish brown, streaked also in general 

 more or less with black. They differ much in size, shape, 

 and colour; sometimes the whole surface is mottled over, and 

 again, there have been known no markings at all: the 

 smaller end is rather pointed. 



Two broods are frequently reared in the season. The 

 young, if fledged, fly off in a body from the nest, if 

 approached. The young of the Spotted Flycatcher I have 

 seen do the same, though they had never flown before, on 

 my going to the nest to place a young orphan Greenfinch 

 in it, with a view to its being fed with them as a foster- 

 brother. 



Male; weight nearly eight drachms; length six inches and 

 a quarter, or rather over; bill, pale reddish brown, darker 

 at the point, the back of the lower bill tinged with red; 

 iris, dark hazel: between it and the bill is a dusky mark, 

 which also extends across the forehead. Head on the sides, 

 yellowish green, inclining to ash-colour, and on the crown, 

 neck on the back, which also inclines to ash-colour, and 

 nape, yellowish green, the edges of the feathers greyish; chin, 

 throat, and breast, yellowish green, but lighter than the 

 back, and with more yellow, much the most so on the lower 

 part; on the sides it is tinged with greenish grey; back, 

 yellowish green, the edges of the feathers greyish, but lower 

 down with more yellow. 



The wings are broad, and expand to the width of ten 

 inches and a quarter; the first, second, and third quill 

 feathers are nearly equal and the longest, the fourth nearly 

 as long; greater wing coverts, greenish grey; lesser wing 

 coverts, the same; primaries, brownish black with light grey 

 tips, and yellowish white inner edges, excepting towards the 



