REED WARBLER. 



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INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIADJE, 



THE REED WARBLER. 



Sylvia arundinacea. Reed Warbler, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 520. 



MotaciUa ,, ,, Wren, Montagu, Ornith. Diet. 



Sylvia ,, NightWarbler, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 254. 



Curruca ,, Reed ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 69. 



Salicaria ,, ,, Wren, Sf-luy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 203. 



Sylvia ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 107. 



Salicaria ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



Sylvia ,, Bec-Jin des roseanx, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 191. 



The Reed Warbler appears to have been first made 

 known as a British Bird by the Rev. John Lightfoot, who, 

 in a conimitnication to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., which was 

 read at the Royal Society, and printed in the volume of 

 Transactions for the year 1785, has well described the habits, 



