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of that low, soft, plaintive rebuke which the little green 
Willow Warbler poured into the ears of those who in- 
vaded its domed nest, so carefully hidden in the long 
grass; or the rich thrill of that saucy Blackcap, as he 
heralds the coming warmth of spring and summer by 
the song of triumph which announces his nuptial vic- 
tory against all rivals? Then, again, there is the 
Grasshopper Warbler, with his invisible form and long 
sibilant note, and the Beed Wren, with his garrulous 
lecture, as he winds among the herbage by the river 
side, or the Sedge Warbler, as it sends forth in the 
still night its song of rivalry with the Nightingale. All 
these are salient beauties in that mental landscape 
which the naturalist often creates for himself, when the 
fortunes of life may have carried him among sterner 
and less poetical realities. 
The Sijlciadce may be taken as typical of the Inscc- 
timree — their food being almost exclusively insects. But 
this is not quite true, for, notwithstanding the assertion 
of the late Mr. Yarrell to the contraiqq the Willow 
Warbler will sometimes join in the more constant 
depredations of the Whitethroat. 
Temminck divided the group into the itiverains, or 
those whose habits were aquatic; Stjlcains, or those 
found more or less inhabiting wmods ; and Muscivores, 
or those which live principally upon flies, which they 
catch on leaves or on the vring. Count Von der 
Mlilile has separated them into seven sections, which 
form, I think, a more natural di\ision, and which 
I shall therefore adopt, giving at the same time that 
to which the bird is referred by Temminck, so as to 
keep up uniformity of arrangement. Count Miihle’s 
sections are — 
1. llaticillcs, Rothlinge. — Bedtails. 
