«.< MARSPI WAKBLER. 



from it in its song and nidification. It has a wide 

 range in Europe, being found in Russia, Germany, 

 Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, and France. It 

 does not seem to go farther north than Denmark. 

 Count Miihle states that it is found in the whole of 

 North and South Africa, and in the south-west of 

 Asia. I cannot, however, find it in either Hodgson's 

 Catalogue, or that of Mr. A. Leith Adams, of the birds 

 of India, published in the "Zoological Transactions" 

 for November, 1858, and May, 1859 — two exceedingly 

 interesting and valuable contributions to Indian orni- 

 thology; neither is it in Mr. Salvin's list of the "Birds 

 of the Eastern Atlas of Africa," or in Captain Loche's 

 "Catalogue of the Birds of Algeria;" but there is no 

 doubt it may have been confounded in the above lists 

 with Sylvia arundinacea. 



In Europe it is found, according to Temminck, plen- 

 tifully on the banks of the Po and the Danube; and 

 Degland records its appearance in the department of 

 Nord. A male was killed in 1843, in the neighbourhood 

 of Bergnes, and subsequently every year others at the 

 same place. M. Baillon has procured it from Abbeville, 

 and M. Gerbe plentifully from the Basses Alps. It is 

 generally distributed in Germany, appearing in May, 

 and leaving again in September. It is found, not in 

 thick reed and sedge clumps, but chiefly on the banks 

 of rivers, where the brushwood is low and mixed with 

 reeds, high grass, sedges, etc., closely grown together. 



The following is from Count Miihle's description of 

 its habits: — "The Marsh Warbler is a very neat merry 

 bird. Quick in all its movements, it is equally active 

 in skipping through the bushes as in flight. Bold and 

 enterprising, it becomes also arrogant and tyrannical in 

 its combats with other birds dwellinsr around it. It 



