. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . shady pools, or leisurely walks underthe trees— In whose cool bowers, tlie birds with many a song,Do welcome with their choir the summers queen.^ 1 Selby says that he has observed that the arrival of this bird may beexpected with the first southerly wind as soon as the larch becomes visibly green.—Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. ii. p. 71. - Verses by Jo. Davors, Esq., in The Complete Angler. 72 THE WILLOW WKEN. The food o
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . shady pools, or leisurely walks underthe trees— In whose cool bowers, tlie birds with many a song,Do welcome with their choir the summers queen.^ 1 Selby says that he has observed that the arrival of this bird may beexpected with the first southerly wind as soon as the larch becomes visibly green.—Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. ii. p. 71. - Verses by Jo. Davors, Esq., in The Complete Angler. 72 THE WILLOW WKEN. The food of this species consists entirely of insects, suchas aphides, and it searches the leaves and branches of thetrees for these with restless activity. Its nest is built on the ground, usually amongst the longgrass near the margin of a wood, or by the side of a walk orride through a plantation, and is formed of moss, dry grass,and dead leaves, lined with feathers. The eggs, which are sixor seven in number, are white, spotted with light red. The Willow Wren leaves us in August and may be distinguished from the Wood Wren as describedin the article on that PASSERES. ( 73 ) SYLVIID^. THE WOOD WREN. WOOD WARBLER, YELLOW WARBLER, LARGER WILLOW WREN,YELLOW WILLOW WREN, GREEN WREN. Phylloscop US sihilatrix. Wors/ilp, ye that lovers be, this May, For of your bliss the calends are begun :And si fig with us. Away! IVinter, away! Come, Stinimer, come! the sweet seasoji and sun. James i., The Kings QuairA This beautiful and interesting little bird generally arrives inBerwickshire between the third week of April and the thirdweek of May, when it may be seen in some of the woods,poised amongst the newly opened and delicate yellowishgreen leaves of the beech, singing its sweet and peculiarsong, which resembles the words Twee-twee-twee, repeatedslowly at first, but afterwards quickly, and accompaniedtowards the end by a quivering of the wings. It appears to be increasing in n
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