The Icterine Warbler.

(Hypolais hypolais).

It is rather strange that this bird, one of the most common songsters of France, Belgium and Holland, should but exceptionally cross the Channel and the North Sea. It is one of the most brilliant songsters, though not — as some have pretended — equalling the nightingale. It is as much given to imitating the song of other birds as the thrush or the starling.

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The Corn-Crake.

(Crex crex).

This is one of the common birds of the fields and meadows. Most people are familiar with its monotonous love song; the "crake-crake" is heard even at midnight, but few have seen the elusive bird that moves with great stealthiness and incomparable agility through the grass-bents and cornstalks. The nest reminds one of a partridge's, but the eggs are rather smaller and more boldly blotched. The bird is omnivorous.

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The Linnet.

(Cannabina cannabina).

The linnet is very common, except in the extreme north of Scotland. It frequents furze-covered commons and sandy wastes. The nest is built in small thorny bushes, a rather deep cup lined with fine bents, wool and feathers. The eggs are bluish grey, spotted and streaked with brown. The linnet is an assiduous songster. In autumn flocks of linnets frequent the stubbles. In this period of the year the rich crimson of the head and breast is hidden under broad grey borders of the feathers.

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