This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...or the Common White-Throat, for it. For my own part, although I have sought after it with great attention and perseverance, I have never been able to detect it even in the northern parts of Northumberland, where the larger species is abundant.--It inhabits the thickest hedges, in which it conceals itself with great ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...or the Common White-Throat, for it. For my own part, although I have sought after it with great attention and perseverance, I have never been able to detect it even in the northern parts of Northumberland, where the larger species is abundant.--It inhabits the thickest hedges, in which it conceals itself with great adroitness, and the intricacies of which it threads with the rapidity of a mouse; on which account specimens are only to be obtained with difficulty and by patient watching. In this situation, its frequently repeated and peculiarly shrill note (which lias been compared to the word actch or atsch) alone gives notice Nest, &c of its contiguity.--Its nest (a specimen of which, together with the eggs and parent birds, I received from Suffolk) is principally composed of the decayed stems of the Galium aparine, neatly though widely interwoven with some locks of wool, and with cottony substances intermixed; the latter apparently the envelopes of the eggs of spiders. The bottom of the nest is lined with a few small fibrous roots; but the whole texture is so open as to be easily seen through, resembling, though upon a smaller scale, the nests of the WhiteThroat, Black-Cap, and Petti/chaps. The eggs are of a l greenish-white, with spots and specks of ash-grey and brown, principally at the larger end, and disposed in the form of a zone; but these spots are sometimes thinly scattered over the whole surface. The species is plentifully distributed throughout the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, and Us periodical polar migration extends as far northward as Sweden. In its affinities, it is even more closely allied to the Passerine Warbler (Curruca minor of Bhisson, Becfin Passerinette of Temm.) than to the Common White-Throat, with which it has no doubt...
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