INSESSORES. 



DENTIROST/tES 



SEDGE WARBLER. 



289 

 SYLVIAD&. 





THE SEDGE WARBLER. 



Salicaria pJiragmitis. 



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



Motacilla 



Curruca, 

 Salicaria phraymitis 

 Sylvia 

 Salicaria 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



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



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



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



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 106. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 



Sylvia 



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



The SEDGE WARBLER, the second example of this small 

 aquatic division, is more numerous as a species than either 

 of the others, and is generally to be found during sum- 

 mer 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 



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