140 WRENS. 



if only the bird can be seen. Its notes, too, are quite 

 distinctive. 



GRASSHOPPER WARBLER— 5* inches. Also an habitual 

 skulker in low growth, particularly in marsh lands, but 

 olive-brown above and white below, of stouter build, 

 and with shorter tail. Note, a stridulous reeling. A 

 summer migrant, and much more widely diffused than 

 the Furze-Wren. 



COMMON WHITETHROAT— 5J inches. Though resem- 

 bling the Furze- Wren in its weeping ways, its jerky 

 fluttering over bush or hedge, arid its excited song de- 

 livered from a top twig, has ashy head, ruddy-brown 

 back, and is white below, particularly on the throat, 

 with a pink flush on the breast, 



