358 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
until I was led—willingly compliant to her little artifices—far 
from the objects of her solicitude. 
I was a good deal puzzled, when at Dresden, by the notes of 
a small bird in the Grosser Garten; subsequently I heard the 
same little song at Pillnitz in a cherry-orchard, and soon saw 
the bird perched on an upper twig, which had shot up to some 
height above one of the fruit-trees ; not more than four feet from 
where I stood was a rain-puddle in a rut, when, as I was wishing 
for a closer acquaintance, down flew the little songster and com- 
menced drinking, and I was delighted to perceive it was a male 
Serin Finch. I was not then aware that the Serin Finch (Girlitz) 
has in recent years become common in that part of Saxony (see 
Mr. Seebohm’s ‘ British Birds,’ vol. ii., p. 84). Subsequently I 
saw one at Pillnitz, singing on the wing, and descending very much 
like a Tree Pipit on to the summit of a walnut-tree in a garden 
close to a dwelling-house. I heard and saw the Siskin (Hrlenseisig) 
in the forest near Herrenskretchen, in Bohemia; also the Coal 
Tit and Nuthatch. 
The Elbe-banks for some miles above and below Dresden offer 
very suitable haunts for various aquatic warblers. They are either 
fringed with willow-holts, or broken by backwaters, overgrown with 
reeds and dense scrub. There are also many pits of considerable 
extent and for miles in succession, from which I conjecture the 
earth has been taken at some time to raise the flood-banks. 
These places are choked with rank vegetation, alders and willows, 
with an undergrowth of sedges, rushes and brambles, and 
numerous pools of clear water overgrown with water-lilies and 
pond-weeds. These are just the sort of places we should expect 
to find swarming with the water-loving warblers. Yet the results 
of several hours spent in these localities were disappointing. 
Sedge Warblers seemed fairly common, but not nearly so generally 
distributed as in North Lincolnshire. ; 
I saw one Aquatic Warbler, Acrocephalus aquaticus, attention 
being first attracted by its song, which struck me as differing from 
the Sedge Warbler’s, the notes being not nearly so varied or the 
song so loud. With the glass I was also able to make out the 
light median stripe down the centre of the head. I cannot say 
if it is common, I should rather say not, as it was the only 
example I came across, and I spent many hours, in fact all one 
morning, in the search. The only other warbler seen was a 
