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Accentors' nests of the year; whilst the Wren is as 

 certain to select the ivy on the wall in which to 

 construct her ball-like abode. The Robin as surely 

 returns each spring to rear its young in some hole 

 in the wall itself. Amongst the fruit trees the 

 Titmice and Flycatchers have their favourite nooks 

 and crannies, and the Redstart has returned as long 

 as we can remember to the hole in the old pear-tree. 

 One bird, however, that frequents the gardens of 

 the northern shires is specially interesting to South 

 Yorkshire naturalists. This is the Garden Warbler; 

 and its exceptional interest centres in the fact that 

 the bird was first described from an example obtained 

 near Sheffield possibly in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Broom Hall and sent by Francis Jessop 

 to Willughby, the co-worker with Ray nearly a 

 century and a half ago, the latter naturalist de- 

 scribing it in his Ornithologia. It is the " Petti- 

 chaps " of Latham, a name, according to Professor 

 Newton, that had not become obsolete in 1873 in 

 the vicinity of Sheffield, although we never heard 

 of it being applied to this species during a resi- 

 dence there of some twenty years. It is a late 

 migrant, seldom reaching its Yorkshire haunts before 

 the beginning of May, and, as its name implies, is 

 very partial to large gardens. Its habits somewhat 

 closely resemble those of the Blackcap ; and of all 

 the Warbler band its song is only inferior to that of 



