. British birds in their haunts. Birds. 136 SYLVIAD^ and occasionally catching flies on the wing. It often, too, descends to the ground, and picks up insects among the herbage. I have never heard it sing on the ground ; but while employing itself aloft, it rarely allows more than a few minutes to elapse without going through its short ami sweet song. This, though very agreeable, possesses no great variety, and is composed of about twenty or thirty notes, the latter ones of which are repeated rapidly, and form a natiiral cadence. For many years this pleasant little. THK WlLLUW-WAllBLKH. melody,
. British birds in their haunts. Birds. 136 SYLVIAD^ and occasionally catching flies on the wing. It often, too, descends to the ground, and picks up insects among the herbage. I have never heard it sing on the ground ; but while employing itself aloft, it rarely allows more than a few minutes to elapse without going through its short ami sweet song. This, though very agreeable, possesses no great variety, and is composed of about twenty or thirty notes, the latter ones of which are repeated rapidly, and form a natiiral cadence. For many years this pleasant little. THK WlLLUW-WAllBLKH. melody, or the simpler song of the Chiff-chaff, has been the first sound I have heard to announce the arrival of the summer birds of passage ;* perhaps it is on this account that it is with me, at all seasons, a favourite rural sound. Ornithologists seem well agreed that the A'N'illow-warbler's food consists entirely of insects. This may be so, but I am much mistaken if a brood of this species annually hatched * I heard it this year, 1859, which was remarkable for its mild winter and spring, so early as the 19th of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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