"The , as it is sometimes called, lives in damp woods, where it can find plenty of insects. It catches them on the wing, as well as picking them off plants and trees. Its colouring is grey above with black streaks on its head; its breast is yellow, with a row of black marks across it, set like a ’s . Its song is louder than that of most s, but very sweet and clear."
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Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney
, (née Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; 25 April 1857 – 21 December 1919, sometimes published as Lady William Cecil) was a British , charity worker, archaeologist in Egypt, , and author.
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