SEDGE WARBLER. 289 
INSESSORES. SYLVIADZ. 
DENTIROSTRES 
THE SEDGE WARBLER. 
Salicaria phragmitis. 
Sylvia salicaria, Sedge Warbler, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 517. 
Motacilla ,, 5 Monracu, Ornith. Dict. 
5 = »  Dird, Bewick. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 253. 
Curruca, 45 » Warbler, Furm. Brit. An. p. 69. 
Salicaria phragmitis ,, p SeLBy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 201. 
Sylvia a 5 os Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 106. 
Salicaria a 35 a GouLp, Birds of Europe, pt. xii. 
Sylvia »  Bec-fin phragmite, Tum. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 189. 
The Sepcz Warster, the second example of this small 
aquatic division, is more numerous as a species than either 
of the others, and is generally to be found during sum- 
mer in most thick patches of reeds or willows in marshes, 
or on the low sides of rivers, or on islands, where from the 
loose and soft nature of the soil aquatic herbage grows 
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