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SYLVIADiE. 
On reading a notice in the Zoologist as to a supposed 
nest and eggs of this species, I should have been led to 
pass it by as insufficient, having from a boy at school 
been yearly puzzled by white eggs of many species. 
Mr. Hawkins has, however, kindly sent me one of the 
eggs to look at, which, from its size, shape, and the very 
delicate white and texture of its shell, can scarcely be 
a white variety of the egg of any other British bird. Mr. 
Hawkins observes, that this occurrence is only a link in 
the chain of evidence, and that he has since been assured 
by a respectable person in his neighbourhood that he 
knew of a nest of these birds (the male of which he 
describes accurately), that he had often watched the 
birds whilst building their nest, which was in a wall, and 
contained white eggs larger than those of the Common 
Redstart, which he knows well. 
