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CALAMOHERPE ARUNDINACEA. THE MARSH 

 REEDLING. 



REED WARBLER. REED WREN. 



Motacilla arundinacea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 992. 



Sylvia arundinacea. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 510. 



Reed Wren. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bee-fin des roseaux. Sylvia arundinacea. Temra. Man. d'Orn. I. 191. 



Reed Wren. Salicaria arundinacea. Selb. lUustr. I. 203. 



Sylvia arundinacea. Reed Wren. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 107. 



Tail rather long and considerably rounded ; the upper parts 

 of a uniform light olive-brown ; the lower pale-yellow^ the throat 

 ichite. 



Male. — The Marsh Reedling is in form and size very similar 

 to the Sedge Reedling, from which it is readily distinguishable 

 by its more slender and elongated bill, the absence of a white 

 streak over the eye, and the uniform tint of the upper parts of 

 the body. In its proportions it approaches nearer to the Grass- 

 hopper Chirper, and especially in the form of the bill, which 

 is very slender, considerably broader than high at the base, 

 compressed toward the end ; the upper mandible with its dor- 

 sal outline sloping and slightly convex, the sides convex toward 

 the end, the edges direct, the notch nearly obsolete, the tip acute 

 and a little deflected. The feet are rather long and slender ; 

 the tarsus much compressed, as are the toes ; the claws long, 

 very slender, extremely compressed, laterally grooved, and 

 tapering to a fine point. 



The plumage is blended, the feathers oblong and rounded ; 

 the basirostral bristles rather strong. The wings are rather 

 short, a little concave, with nineteen quills, which are round- 

 ed at the end ; the first about a fourth of the length of the 

 second, the third longest, but the second and fourth nearly 



