GREAT SEDGE WARBLER. 93 



GREAT SEDGE WARBLER. 



PLATE CXX. 



SELHY. 



ryiHE nest is located among the stalks of reeds, and 



-L is almost entirely composed of the blossoms and 



tops of reeds and other grasses, to about the thickness 



of an inch, laced together with their stalks and leaves. 



The eggs are four or five in number, obtuse, 

 greenish white, spotted with black and ash-colour. In 

 some the ground colour has a tint of olive. A variety 

 in the collection of Mr. Salmon is tinted with light blue 

 sparingly spotted. 



One is of a greenish white, spotted with grey and 

 brown spots, and one or two yellowish brown ones. 



A second is of a light brownish yellow, with large 

 brown and dull yellowish-green spots. 



A third is grounded with grey, spotted with a 

 few dull yellowish-green spots, and some bluish grey 

 ones. 



A fourth is of dark green, spotted with one or two 

 greenish yellow blots, and some reddish brown ones. 



The ground of a fifth is yellowish green, spotted 

 with darker yellow and brown. 



W. F. W. Bird, Esq. has kindly sent me a drawing 

 of an egg from the fine collection of Lord Garvagh, 



