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NEST AND EGGS OF THE WHITE-THROAT. 



PLATE LXXX. 



The White -Throat builds in some low bush or briar^ 

 two or three feet from the ground. The materials in 

 the nest before me are chiefly the dried stems of wood- 

 roof and goosegrass, mixed with other small stems, and 

 bound together with spiders' webs. A thin coat of 

 these substances serves for the whole nest, there being 

 only a few hairs put upon it for a lining ; so that the 

 whole, when finished, if held up against the light, ap- 

 pears like a piece of indifferent netting : but, by 

 reason of the roughness of the goosegrass, and the tena- 

 city of the spiders' webs, the nest retains its figure after 

 handling, much better than many others which are of 

 a heavier make. The White-Throat lays five or six 

 eggs, of a dull green-gray, thickly spotted with brown 

 spots. 



FROM THE PRESS OF G. NICHOLSON, MANCHESTEEi 



