86 The Alps in June. 



specimen which he himself had shot. They are 

 also the summer residence of those Warblers 

 which love reeds, and which abound much more 

 on the reedier lakes of Biel and Neuchatel. On 

 my last visit to Stanz-stadt, my companion being 

 in a hurry to get into cooler climes, I had only 

 a quarter of an hour to spend on this bit of road ; 

 but my ear instantly caught the song of our Reed- 

 warbler, to which I had been listening for many 

 weeks at Oxford, while learning to distinguish it 

 from that of its near relation the Sedge-warbler. 

 It was pleasant to hear the familiar strain the 

 very instant my long journey was over. The 

 Marsh-warbler, the Aquatic-warbler, and others 

 of their kind, are all to be seen by the rivers and 

 lakes of our lowest region (No. i), rarely ascend- 

 ing higher ; and he who has the courage to spend 

 a few days in the baking and biting valley of the 

 Rhone, for example, will find them all among the 

 desolate reed- and willow-beds of that, to man, 

 most inhospitable river. 



Here also, at Stanz-stadt, and all up the valley 

 to Engelberg, and at Engelberg itself in abun- 

 dance, may be seen the White Wagtail of the 



