PLATE I 

 REED-WARBLER. Acrocephalus streperus 



June 25//r, 1898. Among the tall reeds growing along the banks of a still 

 pool on the river Lark in Suffolk, I located several Reed-Warblers, evidently 

 making preparations for nest -build ing. I spent some time watching them 

 collecting the materials, and on the 23rd I found that one of the nests con- 

 tained three eggs. Photography was out of the question on that day and the 

 next, owing to the breeze which was blowing; but on the 25th I got down to 

 the river in the early morning, before the wind rose, and after several attempts 

 I succeeded in getting a lull, and exposed two plates. The birds kept some 

 distance from the nest, as they had not yet commenced the work of incubation ; 

 and although most birds exhibit a peculiar tameness in the early hours of the 

 morning, I could hardly manage to catch so much as a glimpse of the little 

 songsters as they clung to the upright stems of the reeds. 



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