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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
their voices, although their outward appearance and their 
nesting habits are so much alike. 
Before his time they were all lumped together as 
Reguli non cristati, uncrested wrens, and we owe him a 
debt of gratitude for enabling us year by year to welcome 
three delightful birds, which would so often be passed un- 
noticed, if it were not for the distinct character of their 
songs. 
It has always been a delight to every Englishman to 
welcome such familiar friends as the swallow, the cuckoo, 
and the nightingale, but the pleasure may be increased 
twenty-fold — or indeed in Hampshire almost thirty-fold — 
by those who have the patience to learn the songs or the 
plumage of our less familiar summer migrants. 
It is not the fault of White that many readers have 
been puzzled by the appearance of four willow-wrens 
instead of three in the Calendar printed at the end of his 
work. He did not himself prepare the Calendar for publi- 
cation ; it was compiled from his diaries after his death by 
Dr. Aikin, who had not quite mastered the great willow- 
wren problem. It is somewhat remarkable that none of 
White's numerous editors has corrected the Calendar, 
though Mr. Harting has pointed out the source of the 
confusion. 
Genus — A crocephalus. 
26. A crocephalus streperus. Reed- Warbler. 
Reed- Wren. 
A summer visitor. 
It arrives rather late — about the end of April — and 
