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VERTEBPvATA. 
THE EEED-WAEBLER. 
phragmitis, four and tliree-quarter inches long ; red dish -brown above ; buff below ; noted for 
singing at night, and imitating the notes of other birds ; Savi's Warbler, S. luscinoides, five and 
a half inches long ; reddish-brown above ; pale brown beneath; a rare species in Southern Eu- 
rope. The Reed-Warbler, arundinacea, five and a half inches long; pale brown ahove; pale 
/•^^V-^ buff below; has a pleasing and 
varied song, sometimes repeated 
at night, and is noted for mak- 
ing its nest upon several branch- 
es of reeds rising out of the 
water, this being formed by- 
winding long grass horizontally 
round and round, with a mix- 
ture of wool and small reed- 
branches, the whole being lined 
with fine gTass and long hairs ; 
found in Middle and Southern 
Europe; the Etjeous Sedge- 
W ARBLER, S. galactotes, is seven 
inches long ; fawn-color ahove ; 
delicate fawn beneath; found 
in Southern Europe, 
Genus CURRTJCA : Curruca. 
• — This includes the Black-Oap Warbler, C. atricapilla, five and three-quarter inches long ; 
the head black ; body ash-brown 
above ; white beneath ; inferior only 
to the nightingale in the quality of 
its song ; found throughout Europe : 
the Garden- Warbler or Greater 
Prettychaps, C. Jiortensis, six inches 
long ; brown above ; brownish-white 
beneath ; and noted for its wild and 
rapid but mellow song ; found through- 
out Europe : the Common White- 
Throat, C. cinereay five and a half 
inches long; reddish-brown above; 
beneath pale brownish- white, tinged 
with rose ; a numerous and common 
species throughout Europe : the Less- 
er White-Throat, C. sylviella, five 
and a quarter inches long; smoke- 
gray above; beneath white, tinged 
with red; found throughout Europe : 
the Orpheus Warbler, C. Oiyhea^ 
six and a half inches long; ashy-gray 
above; beneath white, tinged with 
gray. 
Genus MELIZOPHILUS : Melizo- 
philus. — This includes the Dartfokd 
Warbler, Furzelin&, or Furze- 
Wren, M. Dartfordiensis, named 
from being found near Dartford, in 
England ; five inches long ; found in 
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THE GOLDEN-CRESTED EEGULUS. 
Southern Europe ; a permanent resident in England, France, &c. 
