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REED WARBLER. 



ITIGHT WAEBLEE. REED WEEN. 



Sylvia arundinacea, PENNANT. BEWICK. 



Motacilla arundinacea, MONTAGU. 



Ourruca arundinacea, FLEMING. 



Salicaria arundinacea, SELBY. GOULD. 



Passer arundinacea minor, RAY. 



Sylvia. SylvaA. wood. Arundinacea Of, or appertaining to reeds. 

 Arundo A reed. 



THE Reed Warbler is abundant in Holland, Italy, Germany, 

 and France, and is found in other temperate parts of Europe, 

 but is more rare in the south. 



The Rev. John Lightfoot was the first to notice this bird 

 as a British one, and his account of it, communicated to 

 Sir Joseph Banks, was read before the Royal Society, and 

 printed in their Transactions for the year 1785. Now, however, 

 it is plentifully known, though somewhat locally in many 

 parts. In Yorkshire it is tolerably common in some districts; 

 among others, near Thirsk and Huddersfield, and has been 

 met with near Ripon. It builds in the gardens of Worcester 

 College, Oxford, as James Dalton, Esq. has informed me. 

 In the counties of Essex, near Epping; in Surrey, on the 

 Abbey River; and in Kent, about Romney Marsh and Sandwich. 

 In Suffolk, near Sudbury; Staffordshire, near Tutbury; in 

 Norfolk, near Yarmouth; in Nottinghamshire; Staffordshire, 

 by the Trent; Sussex, near Arundel; Northamptonshire; 

 Derbyshire, near Melbourne, and other parts; Oxfordshire, 

 and near London. In Devonshire it is considered rare; also 

 in Cornwall. 



In Ireland Mr. Templeton saw one near Belfast; and 

 Robert J. Montgomery, Esq., of The Manor House, Raheny, 

 near Dublin, shot one there on the 21st. of December, 1843. 



