7440 Birds. 



Materials. Moss, lined with hair and fealhcis. 



Eggs, 5 — 7. Pale blue-green, unspotted. 



Stonechat, Sylvia rnblcola. 



Situation. On the ground at the bottom of a furze bush. 



Materials. Moss and dry grass j the lining feathers, hair, and some- 

 times fine grass. 



Eggs, 5, 6. Pale creamy blue, with minute red-brown spots at the 

 larger end. 



Whinchat, Sylvia ruhetra. 



Situation. On the ground on heaths, &c., or very near the ground, 

 concealed with such skill that I have searched for hours without 

 finding it, although certain it was within a short distance of me. The 

 bird is said to make a kind of track or raeuse along the grass to its 

 nest, and to enter this meuse at a considerable distance from the 

 nest. 



Materials, Moss and grass of two kinds, the coarser on the exte- 

 rior, the finest employed for the lining. 



Eggs, 5, 6. Delicate blue-green, rarely with fine red-brown 

 specks. 



Wheatear, Sylvia cenanthe. 



Situation. Always in the chinks of stone walls, or under stones on 

 moors or mountain wilds.. 



Materials. Moss, dried grass, wool and hair: the wool left on 

 brambles and thickets is always sought by these birds. 



Eggs 5, 6. Pale blue-green, rarely spotted at the larger end. 



Grasshopper* Warbler, Sylvia locustella. 



Situation. In furze-bushes on commons, generally at the very 

 bottom, and in sedge in the fens. 



Materials. Moss, grass, lady's bedstraw ; the lining fine grass. 



Eggs, 4 — 7. Gray tinged with rose-colour, speckled all over with 

 the same colour, but of a deeper shade. 



Savi's Warbler, Sylvia luscinioides. 



Situation. On the ground, in the parish of Milton, between three 

 and four miles from Cambridge. 



Materials. The leaves of the common reed, without any other 

 lining. 



Eggs, 4, 5. Whitish, nearly covered with minute specks of two 

 colours, pale red and light ash-gray. " These nests were found at 

 Baitsbite, in the parish of Milton, between three and four miles north 

 of Cambridge. The nests, in each instance, were on the ground in a 

 thick tuft of sedge. These are cup-shaped, compactly formed of the 



