124 MELODIOUS WILLOW WARBLER. 
an idea of its power and melody, in which respects.it is only 
equalled by those of the Blackcap and Nightingale.’ 
Mr. Gould also mentions that it builds on trees, as well as 
at times in shrubs in gardens. 
The eggs are five in number, of a reddish white colour, 
- blotted with spots of darker red. 
Male; bill, yellowish brown; between it and the eye is a 
small patch of yellow; iris, dark brown; head on the crown, 
neck on the back, and nape, greenish ash-colour; throat and 
breast, pale yellow; back, greenish ash-colour. Primaries, 
secondaries, and tertiaries, brown, the edge of each feather 
being lighter; tail, brown, the edges of each feather lighter. 
Legs and toes, yellowish brown. 
W. F. Wratislaw Bird, Esq., to whom this work is much 
indebted for valuable information and assistance, always accorded 
in the most ready, handsome, and courteous manner, and in 
the true spirit of the love of science, has forwarded a foreign 
skin of this species, from which the plate has been coloured. 
