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SEDGE WARBLER. 



SEDGE BIBD. SEDGE WEEN. EEED FATJVETTE. 



Sylvia salicaria, LATHAM. 



" phragmitis, TEMMINCK. 



Salicaria phragmitis, SELBY. 



Calamoherpe phragmitis, MACGILLIVB.AY. 



Sylvia. Sylva A wood. Salicaria Of or pertaining to willows. 



SalixA. willow. 



THE Sedge Bird is generally spread over Europe, its range 

 extending even to the Arctic Circle; in the middle parts of 

 the continent, it is however the most numerous. In Holland 

 it is very abundant; and is found also in France and Germany, 

 Norway, Russia, and Siberia, Italy and Sweden. In Asia, 

 it has been noticed by my friend Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland, 

 in Asia Minor. 



Throughout England it is more or less abundant, according 

 to the nature of the locality. In Yorkshire this bird is 

 very common in the Driffield neighbourhood, and also near 

 Thirsk, Doncaster, Barnsley, Sheffield, Hobmoor, York, Swil- 

 lington, and Brotherton, in fact in most parts; near Halifax 

 and Huddersfield it is less numerous. It is plentiful also in 

 Essex, Suffolk, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Norfolk, 

 Lincolnshire, Northumberland, and Lancashire. In Cornwall 

 it seems to be not uncommon. 



In Scotland it is nowhere abundant, but is most met 

 with in the southern and middle divisions. In Sutherland- 

 shire it is constantly to be heard at night, about reedy lochs 

 and swamps, and is to be met with even to the northern- 

 most extremity. The Sedge Warbler, as its name imports, 

 is for the most part found in the neighbourhood of water, 

 but such is not exclusively the case, for it often resorts to 

 thick hedges, lanes, and other cover at some distance from 

 it. 



