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REED WARBLER. 



Salicaria arundinacea, Hewitson, British Oology, 1st Ed., vol. i, 



1 p., pi. 70, fig. 1 (egg), 1834. 



Sylyia arundinacea, Meyer, British Birds, folio Ed., vol. i. (coloured 



plate figuring adult and egg), 1835. 

 Calamoherpe arundinacea, Macgillivray , British Birds, vol. ii, 



pp. 395-396, 1839 ; Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 



2 pp., pi. 73 (coloured figures of adults), 1862. 



Salicaria phragmitis, Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, 2nd Ed., 

 vol. i, p. 87, pi. 25, fig. 2 (egg), 1846. 



Salicaria strepera, Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, 3rd Ed., vol. i, 

 pp. 119-121, pi. 32, figs. 1 and 2 (eggs), 1856 ; Booth, Bough 

 Notes, vol. ii, pp. 45-46, 1883. 



Acrocephalus streperus, Yarrell's British Birds, 4th Ed., 

 edited by Newton, vol. i, pp. 369-375 (woodcut), 1873 ; 

 Dresser, Birds of Europe, pp. 567-572, vol. ii, pi. 87 (adult), 

 1877 ; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 36, pi. 18, 

 (coloured figures of adult male), 1886; Saunders, Manual of 

 British Birds, 2nd Ed., 79-80 (woodcut), 1897. 



Acrocephalus arundinaceus, Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, 

 pp. 367-374, pi. 10, fig. 16, 1883. 



Croatian, Trstenjara parva ; Danish, Borsanger ; Dutch, Kleine Karekiet ; 

 French, Bousserolle effarvatte ; German, Teich- Bohr s anger ; Hungarian, 

 Kis Nddirigo ; Italian, Cannajola Minore ; Swedish, Borsangare ; Eussian, 

 Trostnikowaja Kamzschefha ; Spanish, Tazaret pinzoleta. 



DESCRIPTION OP THE PLUMAGE. 

 Adult Male in Spring. — The upper parts generally are 

 brownish, washed with russet, but rather more reddish brown 

 on the rump and slightly darker on the crown. The wings 

 and tail are brownish grey, the larger feathers being edged 

 with the same colour as the back, though rather lighter. The 

 lores are light brownish ash, and the sides of the head brownish 

 grey. The throat and abdomen are white, the upper breast 

 being suffused with a very light greyish buff, whereas the 

 flanks are of a more russet buff and the under tail-coverts 

 whitish buff. The underside of the tail and wings is greyish 

 lavender, the shafts of the feathers being white. The axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts are of a rich buff colour. The iris is 

 dark brown and the feathers round the eye whitish. The 

 upper mandible is blackish brown and the lower flesh colour 



