156 BIRD GALLERY. 
No. 54. GARDEN-WARBLER. (Sylvia hortensis.) 
A summer visitor, arriving in the end of April or the beginning of 
May and locally distributed over the British Islands till about the end 
of September. Low bushes and brambles in gardens or copses are the 
sites usually selected for the nest, which is rather loosely constructed of 
grass-stems, with a well-shaped inner cup of horse-hair. The eggs, 
four or five in number, are white, marked and blotched with greenish- 
brown, dark brown, and violet-grey, and resemble one variety of those 
laid by the Blackeap. 
Norfolk, May. 
Presented by Lord Walsingham. 
No. 55. SEDGE-WARBLER. (Acrocephalus phragmitis. ) 
One of our commonest Warblers, and generally distributed over the 
British Islands from the latter half of April till the end of September, 
when the majority go south. ‘The nest, which is never suspended like 
that of the Reed-Warbler, is generally placed in a low bush, or among 
rank herbage, by the side of some stream or ditch. Five or six eggs of 
a yellowish clay-colour, clouded or mottled with brownish and often 
streaked with black hair-lines, are laid in May. 
Norfolk, July. 
Presented by Lord Walsingham. 
Nos. 56 & 57. REED-WARBLER. 
(Acrocephalus streperus. ) 
This summer visitor arrives in England towards the end of April and 
remains till September, but it is rare to the north of Yorkshire, is un- 
known in Scotland, and not yet proved to occur in Ireland. The nest, 
a compactly built structure of fine dry grass, lined with wool, horse- 
hair, and flowering grasses, is generally suspended on reeds or on the 
slender branches of willows and alders, which are woven into the sides. 
It is situated from three to twelve feet above the surface of the water 
and sometimes at a greater elevation. Four or five greenish-white eggs, 
clouded and blotched with dark olive and ash, are laid towards the end of 
May. The Cuckoo frequently places its egg in the nest of this species. 
Sussex, June. 
Presented by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe. 
