8o THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



In June, 1867, I discovered a nest of this species 

 in a low laurel in Windsor Home Park, with two 

 pure white eggs, one with a few brown blotches at 

 the end, otherwise white, and a fourth of the usual 

 type. In 1865 I saw a similar variety of the Sedge 

 Warbler's egg, which was found near Windsor, and 

 identified. Mr. Crewe says that this bird is very 

 common in his parish of Drayton Beauchamp, near 

 Tring, where it breeds abundantly on the shores of 

 the reservoirs. 



REED WARBLER (Salicaria arundinacea). An ex- 

 ceedingly common bird, arriving in this district in the 

 month of April, and leaving us towards the end of 

 September. 



It is numerous along the banks of the Thames, 

 Colne, Chess, and Kennet, as well as by the sides of 

 large ponds, and among the reed-beds on the banks 

 of the reservoirs near Drayton Beauchamp. Its 

 pleasing song, too, may be heard from the osiers 

 which are so common by the sides of the sluggish 

 streams and rivulets throughout the district. 



This Warbler appears to have first been made known 

 as British by the Rev. John Lightfoot, who, in a com- 

 munication to Sir Joseph Banks, which was read 

 before the Royal Society, and printed in their Trans- 

 actions for the year 1785, described this bird from 

 specimens which he had discovered frequenting the 

 reeds on the banks of the little river Colne from Iver 

 to Harefield Moor, a distance of some five miles. 



