44 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH INLAND BIRDS 
the uneven floor of a wood. It is thickly lined 
with feathers, like the ChifF-chafF's. The eggs, of 
which there are generally six, are white, spotted and 
speckled with light or deep red. They are often 
very like paler-spotted varieties of the Chiif-chaff 's, 
but their spots are always of a distinct geranium- 
red, never crimson, or crushed blackberry colour, 
or reddish-chocolate, like the varieties of the ChifF- 
chafFs which they most resemble. They are even 
more like several species of Tits' eggs, but are 
rounder in shape, and of a creamier white in ground 
colour. 
WOOD WREN. 
{Fhylloscofus sibilatrix,) 
Wood Warbler, Ovenbird. — The Wood Wren 
is a much more local bird than either of the two 
last species, being generally found in tall woods of 
beeches and oaks, in the tops of which it spends 
the greater part of its time, frequently uttering its 
curious shivering song. It is not only local but 
fitful in its appearance, being often common in a 
tract of woodland for one or more seasons and 
then completely vanishing. It is a rather larger 
bird than either of its two relations, of much the 
same greenish tinge as the Willow Wren, but with 
a sulphur stripe over the eye and a sulphur throat 
