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falls of a passer-by invariably draws from him a song." 

 Among the birds on the beach at Dungeness, Mr. T. 

 Hepbm-n says : " July 16 to 21 : Found three nests of 

 the Reed-Warbler in the reeds fringing a pool of water 

 on the marshland, one containing three perfectly fresh 

 eggs, another with three young birds and an addled 

 egg, and a third from which the birds had evidently 

 just flown. The birds were singing all round in the 

 reed-beds." 



There are specimens of the nests and eggs of this bird 

 in the Maidstone Museum. A nest from Furnace Pond, 

 Horsemonden, obtained by Mr. Hr Usmar ; a nest and 

 three eggs from Hollingbourne, taken in June, 1880, 

 by Mr. J. Coveney, and another nest and three eggs, 

 found at East Farleigh, July 12, 1890, by Mr. A. Hunt. 



The Eeed- Warbler has been noted in the following 

 localities : Bethersden, Captain J. D. Cameron ; Stour- 

 mouth, G. Dowker; Nonington, Wingham, AV. 0. 

 Hammond ; Elmstone, Eev. AV. B. Delmar ; Walmer, 

 Rev. B. Austen ; Folkestone, H. Ullyett ; Dover, Dr. F. 

 Plomley ; the Medway valley, E. Bartlett and H. Lamb. 



The bird arrives late in April, but no fixed dates have 

 yet been obtained. 



MARSH-WARBLER. 



Acrocephalus palustris (Bechstein). Orn. Taschenb., 

 p. 186 (1802). 



Although the Reed-Warbler is so plentiful in all the 

 reed-beds in Kent, the Marsh-AVarbler has hitherto 

 escaped the observations of naturalists in this county, 

 and the only reference to a supposed specimen is con- 



