118 



SYLVIADJE. 



from the same plant, except that of puzzling young students, 

 I do not know ; nor do the popular names much help 

 them, for the plants, though botanically distinct, often 

 grow side by side, and require a botanist's eye to dis- 

 tinguish them ; and the birds are so much alike, that they 

 are sufficiently liable to be confounded one with another, 

 apart from this additional help to confusion. Let the 



THE REED WARBLER. 



reader, then, thus forewarned, take care to remember 

 that the common River-chat, described above, is the 

 Sedge Warbler, surnamed " phragmitis," while our present 

 bird is the Reed Warbler, surnamed " arundinacea." Both 

 are jaseuses, or chatterers, with rounded tails ; but the Sedge 

 Warbler, has its upper plumage spotted with dark brown, 

 and a white line above its eye, while the upper plumage of 



