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Cambridgeshire. He says : " My attention was 

 first attracted to this species some time since, 

 during a visit to our fens, by the marked differ- 

 ence in the song of a bird somewhat similar in 

 appearance to the true S. arundinacea (i. e., 

 strepera) ; it was louder, clearer, and sweeter- 

 toned than that of the last-named. Its mode 

 of flight, too, was more undulated and quicker. 

 It was more shy and timid, continually retreat- 

 ing to the thickest covert. Never, so far as my 

 experience goes, does it emit notes similar to 

 the syllables ' chee-chee-chee ' so common to 

 vS*. arundinacea." 



Another specimen of this bird was obtained 

 in Cambridgeshire by the late James Hamilton, 

 jun., of Minard, during the summer of 1864, 

 and was exhibited at a meeting of the Natural 

 History Society of Glasgow in February, 1865, 

 as recorded by Mr. E. R. Alston in the "Zoo- 

 logist," 1866, p. 496. 



In the same year, Mr. Robert Mitford gave 

 an account ("Zoologist," 1864, p. 9109) of a 

 Reed Warbler which he found nesting in lilac 



