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BRITISH BIRDS. 
Our figure was taken from a bird which was shot in 
the boundary hedge of Newcastle Town Moor, on the 
2nd June? 1815, and presented to this work by Mr 
R. R. Wingate. Its nest was built in a woodbine 
bush, about a yard from the ground : it was of a slight 
fabric, composed of the dried stems of small grass, and 
curled small roots, and very thinly interwoven or lined 
with a few hairs. The eggs, five in number, were 
white, spotted with brown, and intermixed with other 
spots of a pale bluish ash. They are somewhat less 
than those of the Whitethroat’s, and differently mark- 
ed. 
