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RUFOUS SEDGE WARBLER. 



Salicaria gdlactotef, GOULD. SCHLKGEL. TKMMINCK. 



Sylvia ffalactotes, TEMMINCK. 



Salicaria. SalixA willow as one might say, Willow Bird. 

 Galactotes ? 



IN Europe this newly-discovered British species inhabits 

 Greece and Spain. It is also a native of Africa, belonging 

 to Egypt; and in Asia has been obtained from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Mount Caucasus. 



On the 16th. of September, 1854, one, a male, was shot in 

 this country by Mr. G. Swaysland, of Brighton, near a part 

 of the Sussex Downs, known by the name of Plumpton 

 BosthilL 



This bird is described as of wary habits. 



The eggs are of a pale greenish white colour, spotted and 

 speckled over 'invicem' with two shades of darker greenish 

 brown. 



Male; length, seven inches. The bill is slightly curved; 

 the upper mandible is brown above, the sides pale yellowish 

 brown, of which colour is the lower mandible; from the base 

 of the bill there is a dark streak going back to the eye. 

 Iris, reddish brown; over and under the eye, and passing 

 backwards, is a short cream-white streak. Head, crown, neck, 

 and nape, fawn-colour; chin, throat, and breast, dull white; 

 back, fawn-colour. 



The wings have the first quill feather short, the second 

 and sixth of nearly equal length, the third, fourth, and fifth 

 equal in length, and at the same time the longest in the 

 wing. Greater and lesser wing coverts, fawn-colour; primaries 

 and secondaries, brown, the outer edges reddish buff; greater 

 and lesser. under wing coverts, delicate fawn-colour. The tail, 

 which is much cuneated, and consists of twelve feathers, has 



