REED- WARBLER— MARSH- WARBLER. 20 
departs in September ; and though found in all the 
streams in the county, it is rather local in its distribution, 
as many parts of the streams are never visited by it ; 
on the Upper Test it does not occur above Bransbury 
Common. In the Isle of Wight it is found in suitable 
situations. 
Wise says it " is excessively scarce in the Forest, and I 
have only once or twice heard its note on the Beaulieu 
River. Mr. Hart assures me that it builds in the banks of 
the Avon, but its nest has yet to be found." And later he 
says : " Since these lists were arranged, Mr. Rake sends 
me word, concerning the reed-wren, that in the winter of 
1858 a nest, evidently built the preceding summer, and 
exactly resembling that bird's, was found in a thick bed of 
reeds on the bank of the Avon, near Fordingbridge, but he 
has never seen the birds or eggs from the neighbourhood." 
However, it is now plentiful enough on the Avon ; and, 
curiously, this summer (1904) one of Mr. Rake's grandsons 
gave me a nest of this bird which was taken from a 
willow-tree in his garden by the river at Fordingbridge. 
(Munn.) 
Turle, at Newton Stacey, once found a nest with a 
May-fly and cast, that he had lost some time before, woven 
in among the other materials of the nest. 
Gilbert White does not appear to have known this 
bird, although Bell has marked it with the letter " W " in 
his catalogue of the birds of Selborne. 
27. Acrocephalus palustris. Marsh- Warbler. 
A rare summer visitor. 
In Mr, Hart's collection there is a specimen procured 
