124 MELODIOUS WILLOW WAEBLEE. 



an idea of its power and melody, in which respects it is only 

 equalled hy those of the Blackcap and Nightingale.' 



Mr. Gould also mentions that it huilds on trees, as well as 

 at times in shrubs in gardens. 



The eggs are five in number, of a reddish white colour, 

 blotted with spots of darker red. 



Male; bill, yellowish brown; between it and the eye is a 

 small patch of yellow; iris, dark brown; head on the crown, 

 neck on the back, and nape, greenish ash-colour; throat and 

 breast, pale yellow; back, greenish ash-colour. Primaries, 

 secondaries, and tertiaries, brown, the edge of each feather 

 being lighter; tail, brown, the edges of each feather lighter. 

 Legs and toes, yellowish brown. 



W. F. Wratislaw Bird, Esq., to whom this work is much 

 indebted for valuable information and assistance, always accorded 

 in the most ready, handsome, and courteous manner, and in 

 the true spirit of the love of science, has forwarded a foreign 

 skin of this species, from which the plate has been coloured. 



