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TTTRDID^E. 



C. & S. Europe, 

 wintering in 

 Africa. 



C. & S. Europe, 

 wintering in 

 Africa. 



31. GREAT REED- WARBLER. Aerocephalus turdoides (Meyer). Very 

 rare straggler to England. 



Upper parts and tail olive-brown, below pale buff ; centre of belly 

 whitish ; tail graduated and long; legs pale brown. Length 8 inches. 

 Nest interwoven with and suspended between reeds. 



32. REED-WARBLER. Aerocephalus streperus (Yieillot). Spring to 

 autumn in England; not authenticated in Scotland; unknown as yet in 

 Ireland. 



Upper parts olive-brown ; below pale buff; both distinctly suffused 

 with rufous, most so on rump and upper tail-coverts ; legs and feet 

 slaty brown. Length 5 inches. 



Nest interwoven with and suspended between reeds or twigs, gene- 

 rally overhanging or near water. 



33. MARSH- WARBLER. Aerocephalus palustris (Bech stein). Locally 

 in south of England. Spring to autumn. 



As last, but upper parts olive- greenish without any rufous tinge ; legs 

 and feet pale brown. J, 



Nests in drier places than the Reed- Warbler, though near water ; thet 

 song and eggs also differ from those of that bird. 



C. & S. Europe, 

 wintering in 

 Africa. 



if 



34. SEDGE- WARBLER. Aerocephalus phragmitis (Bechstein). Spring 

 to autumn. 



Upper parts brown, each feather having a dark centre ; crown blackish 

 brown, streaked with lighter brown ; broad buffish-white eye-stripe. 



Young. More yellow ; a few dusky streaks on chest. Length 

 4|-5 inches. 



35. AQUATIC WARBLER. Aerocephalus aquaticus (J. F. Gmelin). 

 Three occurrences : Sussex, Kent, Leicestershire. 



Much as last, but is yellower in tint of plumage and has two broad 

 dark bands along the crown, with conspicuous pale line down the centre 

 of crown. 



36. GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 

 to autumn. 



Locustella ncevia (Boddaert). Spring 



Above olive-brown, obscurely spotted on back, " like a Lark." Tail 

 brown, indistinctly marked with transverse bars of darker brown. 

 Young. Feathers on throat with dark centres. Length 5| inches. 



C. & S. Europe, 

 wintering in 

 Africa. 



37. SAYI'S WARBLER. Locustella luscinioides (Savi). Formerly only 

 in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire ; last record in 1856. 



Above uniform russet-brown : chin whitish ; underparts light brown. 

 Tail slightly cuneiform, indistinctly barred with dark brown. Length 

 6 inches. 



Only found in sedgy marshes. Nest built entirely of sedges. 



