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OR.D. III. GEN. XI. WARBLER. 



SPE. XVI. REED WREN. 

 PI. 113. 



This bird is about the fize of the larger pettichaps, and meafures feven 

 inches and a half in length. The bill is of a dark horn colour, broader at the 

 bafe than in the fedge warbler, which it moft refembles : the eyes olive brown : 

 the eyelafhes dirty white : the general colour of the plumage on the upper 

 parts is a greenifh olive-brown : the lower part of the body tawny white: the 

 legs are of a light olive : the foles of the feet of a bright greenifh yellow. 



The female refembles the male in every thing except being fmaller. 



The eggs are ufually about four in number, of a dirty white, ftained all over 

 with dull olive fpots, chiefly at the larger end. The neft is compofed of dry 

 ftalks of grafs, fufpended between three or four ftalks of reed for the moft part, 

 but now and then on fome contiguous branch of a tree. For the egg fee 

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