THE REED-WARBLER 



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The reed-warbler is an artist, reticent, shunning publicity, 

 and fully occupied with its own work, as all artists should 

 be. To him, to sing and weave those perfect nests and 

 rear his family is the be-all and end-all of life. 



KEED-WARBLER'S NEST AND EGGS (taken in Situ). 



