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Breeding The Bggs are laid in June as a rule: Sarudny took eggs at Seistan 



on June 2 and on the Kirghis steppes they have been found on June 7, 

 but in Kashmir Davidson found 7 nests with eggs on June 22 and 

 Rattray took eggs on the 19th. 



Measure- Average of 20 eggs (18 by the writer and 2 by Pleske), 17.14 x 12.93, 



Max. 18 X 13.1 and 17.6 X 14, Min. 16 x 13.3 and 16.5 X 11.7. 



ments. 



135. Sedge Warbler, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus (L.). 



Plate 29, fig. 1—4 (Denmark). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Taf. XXI, fig. 10, a — c. Hewitson, 

 I. Ed. I. pi. LXX, fig. 2; II Ed. pi. XXV, fig. 2; III Ed. pi. XXXI, 



fig. 3. Baedeker, Tab. 19, fig. 17. Taczanowski, Tab. XLVII, fig. 2. 

 Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 10; id. Col. Fig. pi. 52. Frohawk, Br. Birds, 

 I, pi. II, fig. 61, 62. Howard, Br. Warblers, pi.- 1, fig. 7—12. Dresser, 

 pi. — , fig. 16—18. Nest: 0. Lee, III, p. 144. 



British Local Names: Sedge Bird or Chat, Chamchider, Mock 

 Nightingale. Welsh: Dryw yr liesg. Foreign Names: Bohemia: Mysak. 

 Denmark and Norway: Sivsanger. Finland: BuoJwkerltu. France: Bee-fin 

 des joncs. Germany: Schilfrohrsanger. Holland: Bietzanger. Hungary: 

 Folios sitke. Italy: Forapaglie. Poland: Rokitniczka. Russia: Kamy- 

 schefka. Sweden: Sdfsdngare. Spain: Bnscarla. 



Acrocephalus scJioenobaenus (L.). Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 376. Dresser, 

 B. of. Europe, II, p. 597 and Man. Pal. Birds, p. 123. Hartert, Vog. 

 Pal. Fauna, p. 566. A. phragmitis (Bechst.j. Saunders, Man. p. 85. 



Breeding Range: The British Isles and Continental Europe, ex- 

 cepting the extreme N, and the three southern peninsulas. [Also in 

 Asia E. to the Yenesei, and possibly N. W. Africa.] 

 British Very generally distributed in England and Wales, except on the 



high lying moorlands and mountains. In Scotland it becomes less numerous 

 in the N., although increasing its range in Moray and now plentiful in 

 Dee, and is rare in W. Ross and very local in Sutherland, being every- 

 where confined to ground below about 800 ft. It is found in the Isle 

 of Man and some of the Inner Hebrides, has bred in Skye and occurs 

 in Barra, and also breeds in the Orkneys, but not in the Shetlands. It 

 is one of the commonest Irish birds, somewhat unevenly distributed, but 

 breeding in every county (Ussher). 

 Con- Its distribution in Scandinavia is curious, for it is rare in S. Norway, 



but commoner further N., ranging up to lat. 70*^, while in Sweden it is 

 chiefly confined to the middle and S. In Russia it is tolerably common 

 in S. Finland, while a few pairs reach N. Finland and Lapland, and 

 it has even been recorded from Enare and the Kola peninsula. Further 



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tiueutal 

 Europe 



