SEDGE WARBLER. 



TN8E880RE8. 



DE\T1ROSTRES. 



303 



SYLVIAD^E. 



THE SEDGE WARBLER. 



Salicaria phragmitis. 



Sylvia salicaria, Sedge Warbler, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 517. 



Motacitta MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



Bird, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 253. 



Warbler, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 69. 



SELBT, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 201. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 106. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Bee-fin phragmite, TEVIM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 189. 



Curruca 

 Salicaria pliragmitis, 

 Sylvia 

 Salicaria 



THE SEDGE WARBLER, the next example of this aquatic 

 division, is more numerous as a species than either of the 

 others, and is generally to be found during summer in most 

 thick patches of reeds or willows in marshes, or on the low 

 sides of rivers, or on islands, where, from the loose and 

 soft nature of the soil, aquatic herbage grows thick and 



