96 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



Mr. Mitford I believe has not altered the opinion 

 which he originally expressed ; but, from a care- 

 ful examination of the birds shot by him, I am 

 inclined to regard them all as . strepera. This 

 peculiarity in the Reed Warbler of nesting at a 

 distance from water has since been noticed by 

 naturalists in other parts of the country. In 

 1866 I referred to a confirmation of the fact as 

 communicated by a friend at Ealing, 1 and Mr. 

 A. C. Kennedy, in his " Birds of Berks and 

 Bucks" (p. 81), has alluded to the same habit 

 from his own observation near Windsor. In all 

 probability the birds seen by Lord Clermont in 

 lilac bushes at Twickenham 2 were also Reed 

 Warblers. 



Mr. Frederick Bond some time since called my 

 attention to the occurrence of the rarer S. palus- 

 tris in Norfolk, and kindly lent me a series of skins 

 of both species procured in Cambridgeshire, 

 Norfolk, and Sussex. Of these, two specimens 

 of S. palustris were killed at Whittlesford, Cam- 



1 " The Birds of Middlesex," p. 47. 



2 "Zoologist," 1865, p. 9729. 



