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Wren, for it seems constantly in motion, hopping 

 from bough to bough in search of insects, and 

 singing at intervals. 



COMMON WHITETHROAT, Sylvia cinerea. A regular 

 summer visitant, common everywhere. No one, 

 while taking a country walk in June, can have failed 

 to notice this noisy little bird, sometimes on a high 

 spray, sometimes dancing and jerking in the air, 

 pouring forth its garrulous song. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT, Sylvia curruca. A sum- 

 mer visitant. This and the last-named species are 

 two of the commonest Warblers we have. The song 

 of this bird is less powerful than that of the Common 

 Whitethroat, being merely a kind of convulsive 

 laugh or call, occupying about half a bar of common 

 time. 



A correspondent, writing from Willesden, says : * 

 " For the last few years a pair of Lesser White- 

 throats have regularly built in the tall hedge of our 

 garden at Willesden Green, at the height of nearly 

 six feet from the ground. It is the Lesser White- 

 throat's usual habit about here to place its nest 

 higher than most of its congeners, excepting some- 

 times the Blackcap. The Lesser Whitethroat is one 

 of the earliest to arrive of our summer Warblers, 

 and usually has its nest completed early in May : 

 last year we found an egg on the 28th April. The 



* ' Zoologist,' p. 8949. 



