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from the same plant, except that of puzzling young students, 

 I do not know ; nor do the popular names much help 

 them, for the plants, though botanically distinct, often 

 grow side by side, and require a botanist's eye to dis- 

 tinguish them ; and the birds are so much alike, that they 

 are sufficiently liable to be confounded one with another, 

 apart from this additional help to confusion. Let the 



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THE REED WARBLER. 



reader, then, thus forewarned, take care to remember 

 that the common River-chat, described above, is the 

 Sedge Warbler, surnamed " phragmitis," while our present 

 bird is the Eeed Warbler, surnamed "arundinacea." Both 

 are jaseMses^ or chatterers, with rounded tails ; but the Sedge 

 WaTbler. has its upper plumage spotted with dark brown, 

 and a white line above its eye, while the upper plumage of 



