WHITETHROAT. 
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wool, and is generally lined with black horse-hair. It 
is usually placed in some of the rank herbage which is 
met with in the ditch of a hedge-bottom ; in a low 
bush; in brambles; or a bunch of nettles which are 
even strong enough to support its weight. The eggs 
are four or five and sometimes six in number. 
In Westmoreland, where the White throat abounds, it 
is known by the name of Split-straw, from the fine straw¬ 
like materials used in the formation of its nest. 
