A(2UATIC WARBLER—SEDGE WARBLER. SI 
The story of Mr. Hart's specimen is as follows. He 
was returning from duck-shooting, and discharged his gun 
at a small bird, simply in order to get rid of the charge, 
with the result that he added a new species to the county. 
The specimen procured at Farlington was killed acci- 
dentally by a fox terrier belonging to Mr. Richards of that 
place. 
It is remarkable that both these specimens were killed 
by accident, both on the coast, though in opposite corners 
of the county, and both in the same month of the year. 
Owing to its resemblance to the sedge warbler it may, 
perhaps, be often overlooked. 
It is found in temperate Europe and North Africa. 
30. Acrocephalus phragmitis. Sedge- Warbler. 
Sedge-Bird. Cham-Chider. Channy. Spire-Chatter. 
A common summer visitor. 
From the end of April to the end of September found 
throughout the county and Isle of Wight in all suitable 
situations, and often in places where its presence would 
not be suspected. 
In his twenty-fourth letter to Pennant, White remarks 
that one of his neighbours lately brought him a new 
Salicaria, and proceeds to describe it with his usual 
accuracy. In the twenty-sixth letter he says : " I have 
taken a great deal of pains about your Salicaria and mine, 
with a white stroke over its eye and a tawny rump. I 
have surveyed it alive and dead, and am perfectly per- 
suaded .... that it is no more nor less than the Passer 
arundinaceus ininor of Ray." 
