94 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



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., 

 streperd) ; 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 

 kS". arundinacea y 



Another specirrien 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 



