a cage with some other bird in it, which reconciles it 
to confinement, being so very wild and restless when 
first caught, that if there is not another bird with, or 
near it, there will be very little chance of its living; 
but it soon becomes very tame and familiar in confine- 
ment, and in a very short time will be sociable enough 
to take a fly, or other small insect, from the hand of 
the person who attends to it. 
In confinement the birds of this species will readily 
take to feed on the bruised hemp-seed and bread, and 
some raw lean meat mixed with it ; to make them take 
to it immediately, a little should be placed in a small 
pan or dish, mixed up with a quantity of flies or other 
small insects, and others stuck on the surface of it ; 
some yolk of a boiled egg should also be done up in 
the same manner ; when once they taste this, they are 
particularly fond of it ; the egg should not be mixed 
with the bread and hemp-seed, but be given by itself as 
a change of food ; any small insects, such as the smooth 
caterpillars, moths, butterflies, spiders, grasshoppers, 
crickets, ants, and various other insects, they are very 
partial to, and the more is given them, the better will 
be their health and spirits ; like the Sedge Warbler, the 
present species is very fond of washing often in a pan 
of water, which is beneficial to their health in Summer, 
but is very hurtful in Winter; at that time they should 
be only allowed sufficient to drink, or only be let wash 
about once a week ; they are very restless when the 
time arrives for them to be on their passage, which lasts 
a considerable time. 
I once found a nest of these birds, with five young 
ones ; it was fastened up to the side-branches of a 
Poplar-tree, that grew at a little distance from the river, 
in Broomhouse-lane, Fulham. 
