Identifier: britainsbirdsthe00thom (find matches)
Title: Britain's birds and their nests
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thomson, Arthur Landsborough, Sir, 1890- Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933 Rankin, George
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Nests
Publisher: London : W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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its nest on theunder-side of a branch, but slightly different situationsare sometimes used. The typical situation and the almostspherical shape are well seen in the accompanying plate.The materials used are moss, wool, spiders webs, lichens,and others of a similar nature, while feathers are usedfor the lining. The five to eight or more eggs are laidearly in April, as a rule. They are huffish white, withsmall reddish-brown specks. THE WILLOW=WREN (Phylloscopus trochilus).Plate 126. Taken all in all, the Willow - Wren is perhaps thecommonest and most familiar of British Warblers. Itis common even in the north of Scotland, although notin the outlying isles, and there are few smtable parts ofour area in which it is not abundant in summer. It isfound even in the London parks. It arrives early inApril in the south, three or four weeks later in thenorth, and remains till mid-September. The Willow-Wren is the common representative of awell-marked group of small Warblers, the prevailing colour
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Plate 126. WILLOW-WREN—P/ij//osl-oJ)us trocMus. Length, 4-9 in. ; wing, 2-7 in. (PasSERES : TurdidcC ; Sylviinae.) 2 o 326

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