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SEDGE WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia salicaria.) 



SY. cinerea, subtus alba, superciliis albis. 



Cinereous Warbler, beneath white, with white eyebrows. 



Sylvia salicaria. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 516. 26. 



Motacilla salicaria. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 330. 8. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



2AQ.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 955. 

 Curruca arundinacea. JBriss. Orn. 3. 378. 5. 

 Fauvette des roseaux. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 142. Buff. PL 



Enl. 581. f. 2. 



Reed Fauvette. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 215. 

 Sedge Bird, or Warbler. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 155. Pen. Arct. 



Zool. 2. 41p. M.Albin. Birds. 3. pi. 6O. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



4. 430. 21. Lath. Syn. Sup. 180. 21. Lenin. Brit. Birds. 3. 



105. Don. Brit. Birds. 2. 48. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. Mow*. 



AN elegant species : it is five inches and a half 

 in length : its beak is dusky above, and whitish 

 beneath : irides hazel : crown of the head and 

 upper parts of the body yellowish brown : the 

 crown and back spotted with dusky : wing-coverts 

 dusky, edged with olive-brown ; quills the same : 

 over the eyes a stripe of white : all the under parts 

 yellowish white, the breast and sides darkest : tail 

 similar to the wings, and rounded; its coverts 

 tawny : legs dusky. 



This bird greatly resembles the Reed Warbler, 

 but the latter wants the white stripe over the eyes, 

 and the feathers on the back and wing-coverts are 

 not dusky : the eggs and nest greatly differ. 



