. British birds for cages and aviaries; a hanbook relating to all British birds which may be kept in confinement .. . more delicate and requires more in-sect food as well as more protection from cold than theBlackcap. In its wild state it Hves almost entirely oninsects—flies and small caterpillars—but in the autumn, likeits congeners, it will eat a little fruit, mostly small berries. The nest has a general resemblance to that of theBlackcap, but is of much less solid construction, so flimsyindeed that the eggs can be seen through it from below,for it is often built at a height of five or six f
. British birds for cages and aviaries; a hanbook relating to all British birds which may be kept in confinement .. . more delicate and requires more in-sect food as well as more protection from cold than theBlackcap. In its wild state it Hves almost entirely oninsects—flies and small caterpillars—but in the autumn, likeits congeners, it will eat a little fruit, mostly small berries. The nest has a general resemblance to that of theBlackcap, but is of much less solid construction, so flimsyindeed that the eggs can be seen through it from below,for it is often built at a height of five or six feet fromthe ground, though more generally only two or three. The young have a habit of springing from the nest long 224 BRITISH BIRDS before they are fledged, if they are discovered and lookedat. They can be reared on ants eggs and maggots, andwill then live for eight or ten years. The Whitethroat is a very interesting little creature, forit is extremely lively and full of the drollest antics, whileits song is not by any means -to be despised, if it doesnot come up to that of the Nightingale or the .^^- /;->/ a,0^:i^m The Grkateu Whitethroat.
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