21 

 MARSH WARBLER. 



Calamoherpe palustris, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp., pi. 74 

 (coloured figures of adults), 1872. 



Acrocephalus palustris, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., vol. i, p. 373 

 (edited by Newton), 1873, and vol. iii, p. viii (edited by Saunders), 

 1884 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 573-577, pi. 87, fig. 2 

 (coloured figure of adult), 1876 ; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, 

 pp. 375-379, pi. 10, fig. 15 (egg), 1883 ; Lilford, Coloured Figures, 

 vol. iii, p. 38, pi. 19 (coloured figure of adult), 1886 ; Saunders, 

 Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 81-82 (woodcut), 1898. 



Croatian, Trstenjara Malakavlca ; Danish, Sumpsanger ; Dutch, Bosch- 

 riet-zanger ; French, Bousserolle verderolle ; German, Sumpf '- Bohrsanger ; 

 Italian, Cannajola verdognola ; Hungarian, Filzi nddarigd ; Eussian, 

 Bolotnaja, Malinofka; Spanish, Canamera, Pinzoleta. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 



Adult Male in Spring. — The upper parts are of a uniform 

 brownish tinge inclining more or less towards olive brown, the 

 colour being rather darker on the crown, but more intense 

 and slightly lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts. The 

 tail and flight feathers are brown narrowly edged with the 

 same colour as the upper parts, the outer web of the primaries 

 being tipped with greyish white, the outermost primary 

 narrowly edged with light buff, and the innermost secondaries 

 with the rest of the wing-coverts broadly margined with the 

 same colour as the upper parts. There is a distinct bumsh 



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