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ORD. III. GEN. XI. WARBLER. 



SPE. X. SEDGE WARBLER. 



PI. 107. 



Motacilla falicaria. Lin, Syft. I. 330. 



La Fauvette babillarde. Brif. Orn. III. p. 384. 



This fpecies is nearly of the fize of the black-cap, but more flender. The bill 

 is black : the head brown, with dufky fpots : over the eye is a line of white : 

 back part of the neck brown : back and fhoulders of a flightly reddiih brown, 

 fpotted with black : coverts of the wing dufky, edged with pale brown : quill 

 feathers dufky : tail brown, and rounded in fhape : coverts of the tail tawny : 

 throat, breaft, and belly, white, tinged with yellow. 



This bird is fufficiently common with us in England, and frequents the 

 places where reeds grow, among which it generally makes its neft. It fings with 

 a variety of notes, in imitation of thofe of other birds, and chiefly in the night. 

 Its neft is compofed of ftraw and dry fibres of plants, and lined with hair : the 

 eggs ufually five, for which fee PI. XXIV. Fig. 3. 





