Songs axd Call Noti-s. 187 



The Sedge W;irl»lrr is another singer of the 

 night, a thing one wonld h.-mlly liavc expected 

 when his extreme fhurnal industry in this direction 

 during ^Fav and June is taken into consideration. 

 Whenever I visit ilif Norfolk IJroads in tlio spring- 

 time, tin' I'ird's vdiciuent scohhng song hecomes so 

 engraved upon \\\\ hrniu that I liear it rcpcattMl 

 over and over again, as it" a phonograpliic record 

 of it wcrr constant Iv hring run off on my pillow 

 as I go to slee|). li is .1 (picci- lilting, jerky, hurried 

 httle son--. :ind. as mentioned on a previous page, 

 ma\' he di'.iwn tioni the hird eveu when it has no 

 disposition lo L;i\-e a vohmtary perloi-niance hy 

 fhnging soniethin-,;- into ihe ])laee wlu'rein it is 

 loost ii|M- ;iiid siart ling it . 



The ( Irasshoppei- Warl-lei- can hardly he called 

 asiu'-erat all, toi- it reds out 'die siran-vst macliiiK'- 

 Hke somid that ever issu<'(l tiom a feathered throat. 

 Jn fact, th.e nttise it makes is so unlike a hiids note 

 that few pe(»ple unac(|uai]ited with it would ever 

 suspect that it came ti'om an avian mouth at all. 

 Tlie species has heeii named after the gra^s- 



ll(.|)pel' hecause of the I'eseml >lance of its notes to 



the noise made hy that insect. Some naturalists 

 sa\' that its soiil:- r<'send)les the nois(> made hy the 

 green field cricket, hut to nie it soimds \ery niuidi 

 more like the latiling whirr of a woolspimier's red 

 as 1 ha\e heard it whilst looking over a doth factory. 

 It i< marvdlouslv sustained, often lasting well on 

 fur a minute without patise or ])reak. 



