34 WARBLER. 



breast and sides of the neck olive white, with lance-shaped deeper 

 coloured spots ; middle of belly white ; under tail coverts olive- 

 brown, with white ends; tail very cuneiform ; hind claw very long, 

 and crooked. 



Inhabits Austria and Hungary, chiefly on the borders of the 

 Danube. This seems to be very nearly allied to the Grasshopper 

 Warbler, if not the same. 



26— SEDGE WARBLER. 



Sylvia Salicaria, Ind. Orn. ii. 516. 



Motacilla Salicaria, Lin. i. 330. Faun. suec. No. 249. Gm. Lin. i. 955. Klein, av. 

 74. 4. Id. Stem. 13. 1. 16. f. 2. a. b. Id. Ov. 25. t. 10. f. 10. Borowsk. iii, 184. 

 Sylvia phragmitis, Tern. Man. d'Orn. 133. Id. Ed. ii. p. 190. 

 Curruca arundinacea, firij. iii. 378. Id. 8vo. i. 415. 

 J unco minor, Sepp, Vog. t. p. 98 ? — young. 



•Avis consimilis Stoparolae et Magnaninae, Raii, 81. 6. Will. 153. 

 Salicaria Gesneri, Raii, 81. 11. 

 Der Rohrsanger, Naturf. xvii, 101. 

 La Fauvette de Roseaux, Buf. v. 142. PL enl. 581. 2, 

 Rohrsperling, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 12 ? 

 Der Denderich, Naturforsch, xxvii. s. 45. 



Bird without a name, like the Stopparola of Aldrovandus, Will. Engl. 217. 

 Willow Lark, Br. Zool. iii. Ed. ii. 241. Id.fol.9b. pi. 2. ;f. 4. 

 Sedge Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 430. Id. Sup. ISO. Br. Zool. i. No. 155. Id. Ed. 



1812. p. 517. Arct. Zool. ii. 419. M. Hist. Selb. pp. 67. 71. 74. Albin, iii. pi. 



60. Beicick, Birds, i. pi. p. 215. (Reed Fauvette) Shaw's Zool. x. 586. Levoin, 



Birds, iii. t. 105. Walcot, Birds, ii. pi. 236. Donov. Birds, ii. pi. 48. Pult. 



Dors. p. 9. Orn. Diet. &,- Supp. 



THE length of this bird is five inches and a half, extent of 

 wing eight inches and a half; weight three drachms. Bill dusky, 

 paler beneath ; irides hazel ; head brown, streaked with dusky ; 

 cheeks brown ; over each eye a white line, and above that a black 

 one ; hind part of the neck and back reddish brown, the last marked 

 with black ; wing coverts and quills dusky, the first edged with pale 

 brown ; the under parts are white, with a tinge of yellow on the 

 breast and belly ; tail brown, much rounded at the end, the coverts 

 tawny ; legs dusky. Male and female much alike. 



