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streak ; bill base broader than high ; length five inches. 

 Germany. 



The Warbler of the Reeds, {Mot. Salicaria, Gml. Enl. 581. 2.) 

 Still smaller than the River Nightingale, with shorter 

 beak in proportion; olive-gray above^ very pale- 

 yellow under ; a yellowish cast between the eye and 

 beak. 



The Spotted fFarbler. M. N<Bvia, Albin iii. 266. No. 

 ii. PI. 53. 



Inhabits also reeds ; is the smallest of the aquatic 

 kind ; fawn-colour, spotted with blackish above ; 

 whitish, spotted with fawn underneath ; spotted with 

 gray on the chest. 



The Grasshopper Warbler. S. Locustella, Lath. PI. 

 Enl. t. 581. f.3. S. Albini, Albin, t. 266. Penn. 

 Brit. Zool. t. 9. f. 5., 



is a foreign and distinct species, with red bill and feet. 

 Noseman's figure is a young Sedge-warbler. 



A variety, not spotted on the breast, has been named 

 Mot. Schcenobanus. 



The Aquatic Warbler of Lath. Mot. Aquatica, Gml. 

 S. Schcenobanus, Scdpol. S. Salicaria of Bechstein, 

 Nauman Voy. t. 106. 

 A very distinct species, common in Germany. 



Mot. Schcenobanus, Lin., is a variety of the Hedge 

 Sparrow. 



CettVs Warbler. S. Cetti, Marmora. 

 Deep brown ; wings and tail blackish ; beneatn white : 



