THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 11 



Graham. An adult bird was shot some years ago at 

 Bassenthwaite, and was examined by Mr. Hodgson, 

 A.L.S., but a diligent search through the reed beds 

 of that locality during the present summer was not 

 rewarded by the detection of the Reed Warbler. 

 Mr. H. Kerr informs us that he has seen the Reed 

 Warbler on the Lyne in the breeding season. 



A, Phragmitis. Sedge Warbler. 



The Sedge Warbler is a w^idely distributed 

 summer visitant, nesting among tangled hedgerows 

 as well as by the water side. 



In Mirebank we once found six nests, all con- 

 taining eggs, in a small patch of undergrowth a few 

 yards in diameter. A nest of the Sedge Warbler, 

 built in a whin bush [Ulex Nanus) on Kingmoor, 

 contained five eggs of a uniform pink. Hewitson 

 states that he received a clutch of pure white eggs 

 from T. C. Heysham. The elder Heysham, however, 

 considered the Sedge Warbler ''a very rare bird." 

 He shot a specimen on the Eden in 1796, and sub- 

 sequently secured two nests in the neighbourhood. 



Genus LOCUSTELLA. 



L. Ncevia. Grasshopper Warbler. 



The Grasshopper Warbler is a local summer 

 visitant, rare in the Lake district, not reported from 

 south Cumberland, but well established in several 

 localities in the east of Cumberland, tolerably plenti- 

 ful near Carlisle, and numerous on the Solway littoral. 

 It varies greatly in abundance or scarcity in different 

 seasons, a fact due, no doubt, to the species taking 



