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PASSER EX. 



SYLVIID.K 



ACROCEPHALUS scHCENOB^NUs (Linnaeus*). 



THE SEDGE-WAKBLEK. 



Salicaria phragmitis f. 



THE SEDGE-WARBLER, the next example of this aquatic 

 division, is more numerous as a species than any of the 

 others, and is generally to be found during summer in most 

 thick patches of sedges or willows in marshes, or on the low 

 sides of rivers, where, from the nature of the soil, aquatic 

 herbage grows thick and strong. The Sedge- Warbler, or 

 Sedge-bird (to use one of its oldest and commonest English 

 names), is a summer- visitor to this country, arriving in 

 April and departing in September ; but occasionally ex- 

 amples have been observed in winter. Most generally on its 

 arrival it takes to thick covert by the water- side, and is much 



* Motacilla schcenobcenus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 329 (1766). 

 + Sylvia phraymitis, Bechstein, Ornithologisches Taschenbuch, i. p. 186 

 (1802). 



