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engaged on the broad all night, he first heard the bird 

 " noising" about nine o'clock in the evening, on the 

 6th of June, and observed it from his boat running up 

 and down the dead reed stems, from the tops of which it 

 kept calling at intervals until two in the morning. He 

 then returned home, but at six o'clock he again found 

 it in the same clump of reeds, though more restless and 

 calling incessantly. Soon after this the wind began to 

 stir the reeds, and it then dropped down and remained 

 silent among the thick sedges. Up to this time he 

 had imagined it to be a grasshopper warbler, although 

 the note seemed unusually loud and clear, and like 

 them it kept moving its head from side to side 

 whilst singing. On the following evening, at eight 

 o'clock, the bird was still in the same place calling as 

 before, and as one or two of the grasshopper warblers 

 were singing at the same time, he distinguished at once 

 a difference in their notes. As soon as he had shot the 

 bird, he saw that it was different to any he had handled 

 before, and observing that it remained so long in one 

 spot, made every search for a nest, but could find no 

 trace of one. About ten years ago, he assures me there 

 were several couple of birds on the broad with similar 

 notes, and he then found a nest with eggs, which, 

 from his description, might be either that of Savi's or of 

 the grasshopper warbler. About the first week in May 

 of the following year, a bird, agreeing exactly in note 

 and appearance with the above, was also seen by this 

 marsh-man in a small sallow bush ; not having his gun 

 with him, he watched it for some time, and had no 

 doubt of its identity. From the occurrence of this 

 species in one or two instances in the middle of summer, 

 there is little doubt that it has occasionally nested 

 in our marshes, indeed a nest in the collection of 

 Mr. Newcome, of Feltwell, presented to him by the 

 Rev. J. Burroughes, was said to have been found near 

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