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brown, sometimes a little clouded, suffused, or 

 mottled with darker brown, and often streaked at 

 the larger end with a few short, hairlike, black lines. 

 Variable, both in coloration and size. Measure- 

 ments about .67 by .52 in. (See Plate IV.) 



Time. May and June. 



Remarks. Migratory, arriving in April and May 

 and departing in September. Notes : call, harsh 

 and frequently uttered. The song of the male is 

 loud, merry, imitative, and uttered often, during 

 the night as well as the day. Local and other 

 names : Chat, Sedge Bird, Sedge Wren, Reed 

 Fauvette. Sits rather closely. 



WARBLER, WILLOW. Also WILLOW WREN. 

 (Phyllo&opus trochtlus.) 



Order PASSERES ; Family SYLVIID.E (WARBLERS). 



Description of Parent 

 Birds. Length about five 

 inches ; bill rather short, 

 slender, slightly curved, and 

 brown in colour ; under man- 

 dible paler at the base. Irides 

 hazel. Crown, neck, back, 

 and upper tail-coverts dullish 

 olive-brown, wings and tail 

 dullish slate - brown, the 

 feathers of the former being 

 bordered with olive -green. 



A pale yellow line runs over the eye and ear-coverts ; 

 chin, throat, and breast whitish - yellow ; belly, 

 flanks, and lower tail-coverts greyish-white, slightly 

 tinged with yellow ; legs, toes, and claws light 

 brown. 



