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WARBLER, REED. 

 REED WREN. 



SYLVIA AIIUNDINACEA, Penn. 



This species is distinguished by having its upper 

 part of a uniform tint the common Sedge Warbler 

 being marked with dusky spots. It arrives in the 

 end of April, and departs in September. It is dis- 

 persed over the southern and middle parts of Eng- 

 land, but is confined to such localities as afford 

 proper covert, namely, wet ditches and fens, the 

 margins of rivers and pools that are overgrown with 

 reeds and tall aquatic plants. Its song, which is 

 loud and cheerful, is mnch diversified, and is some- 

 times heard at night. It forms its nest of the seed- 

 tops of reeds and long grass, lines it with the finer 

 parts of the first-named materials, and suspends it 

 between a few adjoining stems. Jtismade so deep 

 as entirely to conceal the bird when sitting. The 

 eggs, four or five in number, are of a greenish 

 white, blotched and spotted with brown and oil 

 green. 



WARBLER, RUFUS SEDGE. 



SYLVIA GALACTOTES, Temm. 



Of the habits of this species of Warbler little 

 appears to be known. Only one instance is re- 



