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BIRDS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
ochraceous; quills and tail-feathers brown with light margins; the inner 
secondaries blackish-brown, edged with buffy-white ; sides of the head and neck 
and hind neck buffy-gray, with dark striations; underparts white with a faint buff 
tinge ; lower throat and flanks striated with brown ; under tail-coverts tinged with 
buff ; bill dark brown ; the base of the lower mandible yellowish ; legs light 
yellowish-brown ; iris dark brown. Total length about 4’5 inches, culmen 0'4, 
wing H'4, tail 1’95, tarsus 0'8.” 
The young bird differs from the adult in having the “ entire upper parts 
washed with warm rufescent ochreous, the margins of the quills and tail- 
feathers being of the same colour; chin white; rest of the underparts warm 
vellowish-buff, fading to buffy-white on the centre of the abdomen ; no 
striations on the underparts, except a faint sign of one or two on the side of 
the breast.” 
In Rutland. — No report. 
SEDGE-AVARBLER. Acrocephalus -phragmitis (Bechstein). 
“ Reed-Fauvette ” (obsolete). 
A summer migrant, generally distributed, and breeding. — Harley wrote: — 
“The Sedge-W’arbler haunts hedges away from humid tracts, and appears to 
associate more with the Whitethroat than with its congener, the Reed-Warbler, 
the personal appearance of which it so much resembles.” * 
Harley further stated that he possessed a nest beautifully and ingeniously 
attached to three twigs of osier, suspended within a fork about three feet 
from the ground. Air. Davenport says : — “ In June, 1883, I found a nest of 
this species built at the top of a ‘ bullfinch hedge,’ quite ten feet from the 
ground, near Shangton Holt. It contained four eggs.” He also writes: — 
“ Sedge-AVarblers are very fond of laying six eggs ; Bullfinches and Greenfinches 
likewise.” I have found nests, at the Castle reed-bed, built, as described by 
Harley, both in reeds and in forks of osiers, and also, as on 11th June, 1885, in 
the middle of a small, isolated, whitethorn-bush, by a ditch at Aylestone. This 
nest was extremely well constructed, and lined with the tufts of the reed. 
In Rutland. — A summer migrant, generally distributed, and breeding. — 
Two of the nests found by IMr. Horn in 1886 each contained a Cuckoo’s egg. 
GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. Locxistdla naivia (Boddaert). 
A summer migrant, sparingly distributed, and breeding. — IMentioned by 
Harley as being “ very locally distributed,” and most numerous along the 
skirts of the woods of Newtown liinford ; also plentifully distributed in the 
wooded districts of Beaumanor, Garendon, and Swithland. He remarked that, 
on showery evenings in Alay and June, “ its voice may be heard in the 
* See iny remarks as to the song of the Whitethroat, p. 52. 
