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BIRDS. 
40. Acrocephalus aquaticus (G^m.). Aquatic Warbler. 
41. Acrocephalus schoenobaenus (X.). Sedge Warbler. 
A summer visitant; not rare, but very locally distributed 
both in the east and west of the county. It has been traced 
to the extreme north of Sutherland by Mr. Selby in the 
year 1834. 
First added to the Caithness list by Mr. Osborne, who found 
it plentiful in the neighbourhood of Wick, in suitable 
localities (0. MSS., 1868). But previous to 1862, the reed 
warbler {Salicaria amndinacea — sic) is recorded in Shearer 
and Osborne's List, evidently in error for the sedge warbler, 
and is noted as occasional. 
Mr. Eeid of Wick took a nest of this bird near Stirkoke 
in 1884. Seen by us not uncommonly in 1885 at Dun- 
beath, and in Dunbeath Glen. 
42. Locustelia naevia (5oc/d). Grasshopper Warbler. 
43. Locustella luscinloides (Savi). Savi's Warbler. 
Family ACOENTORID^. 
44. Accentor col laris (5'cop.). Alpine Accentor. 
45. Accentor modularis (L.). H edge-Sparrow. 
Eesident ; common ; extending its range wherever plantations 
are springing up ; it has now got up to Badenloch, in the 
centre of the county, where there are a few trees planted 
round the shooting-lodge. Occurs also far from wood, 
as for instance at the back of Ben More, Assynt, by the 
heather-clad shores of the Gorm lochs, where a pair seen 
by us evidently had young. Common at Tongue. 
An abundant Caithness species, according to Mr. Osborne, 
well known in both town and country. It leaves the 
plantations and other wooded districts as autumn draws to 
a close, and comes nearer to the houses, where a more 
abundant supply of food is obtainable (0. MSS., 1868). 
