I 



OF XOETHrMBEELAXD AXD DrKHAJI, 73 



where so plentiful as on the banks of the Derwent, a few miles 

 west of ]S"ewcastle. It is a spring-ancl-antnmn migTant. 



72, CALAMODYTA, Meyer et Wolf. 



83. Sedge AYaebleu. C. pheagmitis, {Bechstein). 



Sijlcia 2}]tr(ujmitis, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 140. 

 Salican'a „ Yarrcll, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, I., 289. 



A plentiful spring-and-antumn migrant. It has a sweet and 

 varied song, and as it sings at night it is occasionally mistaken 

 for the Nightingale ; and in this way may liayo originated the 

 reiterated reports that the chief of the songsters had been heard 

 in the northern counties. 



Some years ago a Mghtingale escaped from confinement in 

 Jesmond Dene : it was almost immediately recaptured. It got, 

 however, bruited about that a Mghtingale had been heard sing- 

 ing in the dene ; and crowds of people went night after night to 

 hear it. Xany came away quite satisfied that they had heard 

 the great songster, the Sedge "VYarblcr ha'\ing raised his voice 

 as if on purpose to gratify the multitude or to have his joke; 

 and proud would the little merry fellow have been could he have 

 known how well ho had siicceeded. 



Family. TEOGLODYTIDiE, 0. Bes Murs. 

 1?,. TROGLODYTES, VkUhu 



84. '\Yrex. T. PATtvrLrs, Koch. 



Troglodytes vulgarifi, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 

 171. 



Troglodi/tes vulgaris, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, II., 169. 



A resident. Common in both counties. Delighting in low 

 brushwood, and overhanging banks, where it nests. This little 

 favourite seeks the habitations of man in severe winter weather. 



