7442 Birds. 



on it. " A pair mostly build in the laurel hedge in my garden, and 

 place the nest six feet from the ground." — Mr. Doubleday. 



Materials. The dried stems of cleavers, fibrous roots, &c. ; very 

 slovenly iu structure. 



Eggs, 4, 5. Whitish, spotted and blotched with two shades of 

 brown or delicate pale pink, with dark red spots and blotches. 



Garden Warbler, Sylvia horiensis. 



Situation. Among nettles and in bramble-bushes, or traveller's joy 

 when densely matted and near the ground. 



Materials. Moss, dried goose-grass, fibrous roots, wool, horse-hair; 

 a loose and slovenly nest. 



Eggs, 4, 5. Pale stone-colour, spotted with ash-gray and 

 brown. 



Whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea. 



Situation. Among nettles and in bramble-bushes, or in any low 

 and very thick herbage. 



Materials. Generally the dead stems of goose-grass and a little 

 hair ; the materials are very loosely attached, and the nest appears 

 carelessly made. 



Eggs, 4, 5. Greenish white, spotted with gray and brown ; the spots 

 much thicker at the larger end, and forming a zone. 



Lesser Whitethroat, Sylvia curruca. 



Situation. Among nettles, brambles, &c. 



Materials. Stout bents outside ; finer ones and horsehair in- 

 side. 



Eggs, 4, 5. White, inclining to gray, with scattered spots of dark 

 gray and pale umber-brown, chiefly at the larger end. 



Wood Wren, Sylvia sylvicola. 



Situation. On the ground, among coarse tufts of grass ; its shape 

 a depressed sphere. 



Materials. Hay, leaves, moss, lined with very fine hay and horse- 

 hair. 



Eggs, 5, 6. White, covered with purple-red spots, rarely confluent 

 and forming a zone at the largest part. 



Willow Wren, Sylvia trochilus. 



Situation. On the ground, generally on the bank bordering roads 

 that have been worn through woods; its shape a depressed sphere, 

 with a lateral opening. 



Materials. Moss and grass externally, lined with feathers. 

 Eggs, 5 — 7. White, delicately speckled with red, or sometimes 

 unspotted while. 



