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SEDGE-WARBLEE. 



Sylvia phragmitis, Meyer, British Birds, folio Ed., vol. i. (coloured 



plate figuring adult and egg) [1835-43] . 

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



pi. 70, fig. 2 (egg) [1836] ; id., Eggs of British Birds, 2nd 



Ed., vol. i, p. 87, pi. 25, fig. 2 (egg), 1846 ; id. id., 3rd Ed., 



vol. i, pp. 117-118, pi. 31, fig. 3 (egg), 1856 ; Booth, Bough 



Notes, vol. ii, pp. 43-44, 1883. 

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



pp. 390-394 (woodcut of head), 1839. 

 Calamodyta phragmitis, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 



2pp, pi. 75 (coloured figures of adult male and female), 1862. 

 Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., 



vol. i, edited by Newton, pp. 376-379 (woodcut), 1873 ; 



Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 597-601, pi. 90, fig. 



2 (coloured figure of adult male), 1876. 

 Acrocephalus phragmitis, Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 352- 



356, pi. 10, fig. 17 (egg), 1883; Lilford, Coloured Figures, 



vol. iii, p. 40, pi. 20 (coloured figure of adult male), 1886 ; 



Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 85-86 



(woodcut), 1898. 



Arabian, Fisseu; Croatian, Vodarisa rogocara; Czechisch, Mysak ; 

 Danish, Sivsanger ; Dutch, Bietzanger ; Finnish, Buohoherttu ; French, 

 Bee-fin phragmite ; German, Schilf-Rohrsdnger ; Hungarian, Foltos sitke ; 

 Italian, Forapaglie ; Maltese, Violin; Norwegian, Sivsanger; Polisb, 

 Trzciniak rokit-niczka ; Eussian, Kamyschefka kamyschewaja ; Spanish, 

 Buscarla; Swedish, Sdfsangare. 



DESCRIPTION OP THE PLUMAGE. 



Adults in Spring. — The sexes are alike, the male, 

 perhaps, being a trifle brighter and rather larger, but on 

 the other hand a bright female may surpass a dull- coloured 

 male. The upper parts are of an umber brown tint shad- 

 ing into an almost unspotted rusty brown on the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts. . There is a conspicuous buffish white 

 superciliary stripe and above that an equally conspicuous 

 blackish stripe; the feathers in the middle part of the crown 



