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its note is unmistakeable, though that of the hen-bird 

 is merely a bubbling sound. Abroad its summer range 

 extends from about the Arctic Circle to north Africa, 

 Japan and the Himalayas, but it migrates to the extreme 



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south of Asia and Africa. In Britain it is almost more 

 common in the north than in the south, for there the 

 insects and caterpillars which form its food are every- 

 where plentiful, and the Meadow-Pipit is even a more 

 usual foster-parent than the Sedge or Reed Warbler. 



