SEDGE BIRD. 



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SEA LARK. — A name for the Rock Lark. 

 SEA MALL. — A name for the Gull. 

 SEA MEW.— A name for the Gull. 

 SEA PARROT. — A name for the Coulterneb. 

 SEA PHEASANT.— A name for the Pintail Duck. 

 SEA PIE. — A name for the Oyster Catcher. 

 SEA SANDPIPER.— A name for the Purple Sandpiper. 

 SEA SWALLOW.— A name for the Tern. 

 SEA TURTLE.— A name for the Guillemot, 

 SECONDARIES. — *The quill feathers arising- from the second joint 

 of the wing-.* 



SEDGE BIRD (Curruca salicaria, Fleming.) 



* Sylvia Phragmitis,' BecftsL Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 633. — lb. Tasschenb.Deut. p. 186. 

 sp. 20. — Sylvia salicaria, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 516. sp. 26. — Curruca arundi- 

 nacia, Briss. 3. p. 378. 5. — Curruca salicaria, Flem. Br. Anim. p. 69. — Avis 

 consimilis staparolae, Rati, Syn. p. 81. 6. — Will. p. 153. — Bee-fin Phragmite, 



Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 189 Schilfsanger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1, p. 



234.— Enkel Karakiet, Sepp. Nederl. Vog. 2. t. 53. p. 98.— Sedge Warbler, 



Arct. Zool. 2. No. 419 White's Hist. Selb. p. 67. 71. 74.— Lath. Syn. 4. p. 



430. 21. — lb. Supp. p. 180. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — lb. Supp. — Lewin's Br. Birds, 



3. t. 105 Wale. Syn. 2. t. 236.— Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 9.— Don. Br. Birds, 2. 



t. 48.— Syme, p. 146 Sweet's Br. Warbler, p. 13 — Willow Lark, or Sedge 



Bird, Br. Zool. 1. No. 155 Peed Fauvette, Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. t. 223.— 



Selby, pi. 45**. fig. 2. p. 169.. 



Provincial. — Sedge Wren. Lesser Reed Sparrow.* 

 The weight of this species is about three drams ; length five inches 

 and a half ; bill dusky above, whitish beneath ; irides hazel ; crown of 

 the head and whole upper parts of a yellowish brown, plain on the back 

 and sides of the neck, rump, and upper tail coverts ; the rest obscurely 

 marked with dusky ; the coverts of the wings more dusky, edged with 

 olivaceous brown ; quills the same, but slightly edged ; over the eye a 

 whitish stroke ; all the under parts, from the chin to the under tail 

 coverts, yellowish white, darkest on the breast and sides ; tail like the 

 quills, a little cuneiform, which, when spread, gives it a rounded shape ; 

 legs dusky. 



The Sedge Bird comes to us about the middle of April, and leaves 

 us again in September. It has a variety of notes, which it delivers in a 

 hurried manner, and which partakes of that of the sky lark and the 

 swallow, as well as the chatter of the house sparrow. It is frequently by 

 the sides of rivers and watery places, where sedge and reeds grow, 

 amongst which it makes a nest composed of a little moss intermixed with 

 dried stalks, lined with dried grass, and occasionally with a few hairs ; 

 sometimes it is fastened between two or three reeds : others we have 



