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SYL\'IAD.E. 
usually in low bushes or underwood, and forms a slight 
nest loosely construeted, and composed of dry grass stalks, 
strips of the fibrous stems of hemlock or nettles, and rarely 
a little green moss. Very little care is taken to conceal 
the nest. The eggs, usually five in number, are mottled 
with ash-grey and brown upon a reddish-white ground. 
Some differ from this description, and resemble very nearly 
those of the blackcap. 
The food of this species is the same as that of the pre¬ 
ceding, to which may be added the caterpillars of the cabbage 
butterfly, which, although rejected by most other birds, are 
by these eagerly devoured. 
The Garden Warbler is, according to Temminck, abun¬ 
dant in Holland, and common in all the southern and tem¬ 
perate countries of Europe. It commences its migration 
southward as early as August. This bird is the Fauvette 
of Montagu, and the Greater Pettichaps of Selby. 
The egg of this species is figured 66 in the plate. 
