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BRITISH BIRDS. 



I had shared — nothing furtlier to my knowledge resulted ; 

 no eggs were laid in the double nest and I saw but little 

 more of the Marsh- Warblers. 



Searching in the rough tangle of herbage near the double 

 nest, I found a nest (Fig. 4) with young birds, which at 



FIG. 4. NEST OF SEDGE-WABBLER SUSPENDED IN 



LONG GRASS. 



(Photographed by W. Farren.) 



first puzzled me not a little ; it was suspended about 

 three feet from the ground on the stems of a tall reed- 

 like grass (Phalera aru7idinacea) . It was wrong in shape 

 and too solidly built for the Reed- or Marsh-Warbler, 

 and some moss woven in the lower part of the nest, and 



