Class IL SEDGE. 381 



throughout the winter, excepting during the froils. 

 It makes its neft in a very curious manner ^ of 

 an oval fhape, very deep, with a fmall hole in the 

 middle for ingrefs and egrefs : the external material 

 is mofs, within it is lined with hair and feathers. 

 It lays from ten to eighteen eggs ; and as often 

 brings up as many young ; which, as Mr. Ray ob- 

 ferves, may be ranked among thofe daily miracles 

 that we take no notice of; that it fhould feed 

 fuch a number without pafTing over one, and that 

 too in utter darknefs. 



The head and upper part of tlie body of the Descrip. 

 wren are of a deep reddifli brown : above each eye 

 is a ftroke of white : the back, and coverts of 

 the wings, and tail, are marked with (lender 

 tranfverfe black lines : the quil-feathers with bars 

 of black and red. The throat is of a yellowifh 

 white. The belly and fides crofled with narrow 

 dufky and pale reddifli brown lines. The tail is 

 croffed with dufky bars. 



Willow Lark, Br* ZooL II. PafTer arundinaceus minor. 155, Ssocs, 



241. Ratijyn. av- 47. 



Sedge Bird. Br, ZooL IV. Motacilla falicaria. Lin./yjf. 



tab, X, 330. Faun, Suec No. 249, 



Leffer Reed Sparrow. TFih La Fauvette babiilarde. BriJ- 



orn* 144, fon, av. III. 384. 



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HIS fpecies is of a flender elegant form : the 



bill black : the P^^ad brown, marked with 



C c 3 dufky 



