From Barston, Warwickshire. Presented by the Curator (M.B.), 1882.
The animals collected in the district are now being placed in the middle of the room in oak cases, with plate-glass all around, on the tops of table-cases holding at present the invertebrates, and will show the male and female, young in nest, the eggs, birds in change of plumage, all surrounded as in nature by carefully-modelled plants and other accessories, the food, and the skeleton. The labelling of these latter groups requiring a mass of information, as being of local interest, is in this wise (on light sage-green coloured cards):
TOWN MUSEUM, LEICESTER.
Studies illustrating the Habits, etc.., of Animals collected in the County.
CLASS — Aves ORDER — Passeres FAMILY — Turdidae
GROUP No. . — Illustrative of the Life-History of the Whitethroat (SYLVIA CINEREA, Bechst), a Bird of Passage, or Spring Migrant to Britain (winters in Africa).
| No. C1A — Male Whitethroat No C1B — Female Whitethroat No C1— Nest Of Whitethroat Nos. C1.50 to C1.53 — Four Young Of Whitethroat | The whole collected by the Curator at Aylestone, August, 1883. The Male and Female are the actual builders of the nest, and parents of the young birds here shown. |
No. A Male, and No. Female, in Spring plumage. To be procured
RANGE. — N. Africa, Western Asia, Europe generally, common in Britain (except in the North), and also in Leicestershire.
FOOD. — Caterpillars, various small insects, and occasionally small fruits.