THE MARSH BIRDS OF SUSSEX. 



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and taking a crooked walking-stick in one hand, and 

 the scissors in the other, I held the nest towards me 

 and cut the reeds one by one, and so got it in safety. 



COMMON REED IN FLOWER. 



We found here an empty nest of the Reed-Bunting, 

 and saw several of the birds flying about. The 

 flowering tops of the common Reed (Arundo phrag- 



