BRITISH BIRDS. 



feeds on grasshoppers, beetles, and other insects. 

 It also is said to imitate the notes of other birds, 

 in order the more surely to decoy them. When 

 sitting on the nest, the female soon discovers her- 

 self at the approach of any person, by her loud and 

 violent outcries. She builds in hedges or low 

 bushes, and lays six eggs, marked with a reddish 

 brown circle, formed of spots, toward the larger 

 end. 



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