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WARBLER, REED. 
REED WREN. 
SYLVIA ARUNDINACEA, Penn. 
This species is distinguished by having its upper 
part of a uniform tint—the common Sedge Warbler 
being marked with dusky spots. It arrives in the 
end of April, and departs in September. It is dis- 
persed over the southern and middle parts of Eng- 
land, but is confined to such localities as afford 
proper covert, namely, wet ditches and fens, the 
margins of rivers and pools that are overgrown with 
reeds and tall aquatic plants. Its song, which is 
loud and cheerful, is mnch diversified, and is some- 
times heard at night. It forms its nest of the seed- 
tops of reeds and long grass, lines it with the finer 
parts of the first-named materials, and suspends it 
between a few adjoining stems. Itis made so deep 
as entirely to conceal the bird when sitting. The 
eggs, four or five in number, are of a greenish 
white, blotched and spotted with brown and oil 
oreen. 
WARBLER, RUFUS SEDGE 
SYLVIA GALAcToTEs, Zemm. 
Of the habits of this species of Warbler little 
appears to be known. Only one instance is re- 
