REED WARBLER. 



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five inches in length ; but is not otherwise unlike the 

 male. 



The character of the beak, the entire absence of the 

 buffy white stripe over the ear-coverts, and the uniform 

 colour of the whole of the upper surface of the body of 

 this bird, distinguish it from either the Grasshopper War- 

 bler or the Sedge Warbler, with both of which, however, 

 it has many habits in common. 



The vignette below represents the nest of the Reed 

 Warbler, obtained from a reed-bed near the Thames. 



