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tion. Moreover the wing is proportionally longer, 

 and the second wing feather is considerably longer 

 than the fourth, nearly even with the third, which is 

 longest. 



The breeding habits of this " marsh warbler" more resemble 

 those of the sedge warbler, although the egg is more like 

 that of the reed warbler, but not so green. 



Is said to be the finest songster of all the water warblers. 

 It does not frequent the same localities as either of the two 

 last, but in Sweden is generally found in the vicinity of 

 water, among low bushes or nettles, corn, high grass, etc., 

 and in the summer most among green rye or peas. Is 

 seldom seen, but the song, which is so unlike that of either 

 of the last, cannot fail to strike the ear at once. 



It is met with in the south and south-west of Scania 

 and also in Denmark, but, as Kjarbolling observes, it has 

 so long been confounded with the last, that it is hard to 

 define its proper limits or localities. 



The aquatic warbler (Sylvia aquatica, Tern.), the grass- 

 hopper warbler (S. locustella, Boie), the great sedge warb- 

 ler, or thrush warbler (S. turdoides, Mey), and the S. 

 cariceti, Naum, or Striata, Brehm., are included in the Danish 

 fauna, but none of them have been identified either in 

 Sweden, Norway, or Finland. 



I fancy this S. Cariceti must be either the Sylvia aqua- 

 tica, or a variety of the S. phragmitis (sedge warbler), both 

 of which it very much resembles. I do not find it figured 

 in Breeds ' e Birds of Europe," or mentioned in his list 

 as a species, but in his list of synonymes to the aquatic 

 warbler he gives, Calamodyta Schcenobcenus et Cariceti, Bp., 

 1838; Gerbe; Diet, 1348; so he probably considers it as 

 the same bird. 



Kjarbolling gives it the Danish name of star sangare, 

 and describes it Pale yellow- grey, black spotted. Eump 

 rusty red. A yellow- white stripe over the eye. Forehead 

 black with a yellow-grey stripe in the middle. Wing 

 feathers edged with pale grey. Under parts yellowish 

 white, with many fine blackish streaks on the front of the 



