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you cannot tell in such seasons what new | 
nests you are going to find until the autumn, 
when all building operations cease. (The 
nest of the robin which was found in January, 
described on p. 4,.could not be called a 
late nest, but an early one.) The Keed- 
Warbler is, both in plumage and song, very 
much like the sedge-warbler ; he is the same 
length (five inches); and the nests, too, are 
gemiest (identical. (see. Part I,, p.-\60).- A 
difference is found in the eggs, those of the 
veed-warbler having a greenish white ground 
colour, variously marked with olive and 
grey, whilst the sedge-warbler’s are of a pale 
white or brownish ground colour, with yellow 
spots. Each bird lays four or five eggs, but 
the reed-warbler’s are somewhat smaller. 
The reed-warbler has no spots in the upper 
plumage like the sedge-warbler, and has a 
white streak between the eye and the bill. 
The sedge-warbler has a distinct yellowish 
streak above the eye. The reed-warbler 
frequents and usually builds in reeds and 
sedges (hence its name); the sedge-warbler 
