SEDGE WARBLER. 



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INSESSORES. 



DENTTROSTRES. 



SYLVIAD^.. 



THE SEDGE WARBLER. 



Sylvia sulicaria, Sedge Warbler, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 517. 



Montagu, Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 253. 

 , Flem. Brit. An. p. 69. 



Seley, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 201. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 106. 



Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 

 Sylvia „ Bec-Jin i)hragmite,TET,m. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 189. 



The Sedge Warbler, the second example of this small 

 aquatic division, is more numerous as a species than either of 

 the other two, and is generally to be found during summer 

 in most thick patches of reeds or willows in marshes, or on 

 the low sides of rivers, or on islands, where from the loose 

 and soft nature of the soil aquatic herbage grows thick and 

 strong. The Sedge Warbler is a summer visiter to this 



