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55. GRASSHOPPER WARBLER—(Salicaria locusteila). 
A summer visitor, of shy and retired habits, and very vigilant. 
Its note, very shrill and constantly repeated, reminding one of 
the Cricket or Grasshopper’s note, gains it its name. The 
nest is hard to find, and unless the bird be very closely 
watched, it may baffle a good observer. It is placed in spots 
matted and overhung with growth of grass or other herbage and 
bushes; is cup-shaped, made of coarse dry grass, with finer 
within; and contains sometimes as many as seven eggs, of a 
pale pinky-white colour, freckled with spots of a darker shade 
of red.— Fig. 2, plate III, 
56. SEDGE WARBLER—(Salicaria phragmitis). 
This everlasting little songster is more common than the bird 
last named, and almost every boy knows its peculiar chiding note. 
Many a lad, too, knows that by shying a stone in near its haunt, 
its notes may be elicited almost any hour in the night or day. 
I think I have neard it singing on all through the night, and 
notwithstanding the absence of any pretence at daylight. Its 
nest is usually placed near the ground, in the vicinity of more or 
less water, and is supported, as well as concealed, by the coarse 
herbage. Made of coarse grass stalks externally, and lined with 
finer ones and hair, sometimes with a foundation of moss, five 
or sIx eggs are deposited in its cup-shaped hollow, of a pale brown 
colour, a little mottled with darker brown.—/Vg. 3, plate III. 
57. SAV’YS WARBLER—(Salicaria luscinoides). 
Not of sufficiently common occurrence to demand notice here. 
58. REED WARBLER—(Salicaria arundinacea). 
Reed Wren, Night Warbler. Almost as zealous a songster as 
the Sedge Warbler. There are few hours in the twenty-four 
