226 REED BUNTING. CrassI 
color: the back of the fame colors: the rump of a 
rufty red: the quil-feathers dufky, their exterior. 
fides edged with yellowifh green: the tail is a lit- 
tle forked; the middle feathers are brown; the 
two middlemoft edged on both fides with ereen; 
the others on their exterior fides only: the inte- 
tior fides of the two outmoft feathers are marked 
obliquely near their ends with white. 
120. Reep. Scheeniclus. Ge/ner av. 573; tulanus arundinaceus. Brifon 
652. av. Ill. 274. 
Wil. orn. 269. . ae ae Lin. fy fp. 
Reed Sparrow. Rati fyn. av. 
95. Saf feos Faun. Suec. fp. 231+ 
The Nettle-monger. Morton Rohrammering, Meerfpatz. 
Northampt. 428. Kram. 371. 
Ror-Spurv. SBruznich 251. Rohrammer (Reed-hammer) 
L’Ortulan de Rofeaux, Hor- Frifch, 1. 7. 
br. Zool. 112. plate W. 
HE reed iparrow inhabits marfhy places, 
moft commonly among reeds; from which 
Nest. jt takes its name. Its neft is worthy notice for 
the artful contrivance of it, being faftened to: four 
reeds, and fufpended by them like a hammock, 
about three feet above the water; the cavity of the 
neft is deep, but narrow, and the materials are 
rufhes, fine bents and hairs. It lays four or five 
eggs, of a bluifh white, marked with irregular pur- 
plith veins, efpecially on the larger end. Itis a 
bird much admired for its fong, es like the. Sc 
ingale it fings in the night. 
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