SEDGE BIRD. 
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SEA LARK. — A name for the Rock Lark. 
SEA MALL. — A name for the Gull. 
SEA MEW. — A name for the Gull. 
SEA PARROT. — A name for the Coulterneb. 
SEA PHEASANT. — A name for the Pintail Duck. 
SEA PIE. — A name for the Oyster Catcher. 
SEA SANDPIPER. — A name for the Purple Sandpiper. 
SEA SWALLOW. — A name for the Tern. 
SEA TURTLE. — A name for the GuillemoL 
SECONDARIES. — *The quill feathers arising- from the second joint 
of the wing.* 
SEDGE BIRD (^Curruca salicariay Fleming.) 
* Sylvia Phraginitis, Rec/isL Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 633. — Ib. Tasschenb.Deut. p. 186. 
sp. 20. — Sylvia salicaria, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 516. sp. 26. — Curruca arundi- 
nacia, Briss. 3. p. 378. 5. — Curruca salicaria, Fiem. Br. Anim. p. 69. — Avis 
consimilis staparolae, Raii, Syn. p. 81. 6. — Will. p. 153. — Bec-fin Phragmite, 
Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 189. — Schilfsanger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 
234. — Enkel Karakiet, Sepp. Nederl. Vbg. 2. t. 53. p. 98. — Sedge Warbler, 
Arct. Zool. 2. No. 419 White'' s Hist. Selb. p. 67. 71. 74. — Lath. Syn. 4. p. 
430. 21 Ib. Supp. p. 180. — Mont. Oru. Diet.: — Ib. Supp. — Leivm’s Br. Birds, 
3. t. 105. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 236. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 9. — Don. Br. Birds, 2. 
t. 48. — Syme, p. 146 Sweet's Br. Warbler, p. 13. — Willow Lark, or Sedge 
Bird, Br. Zool. 1. No. 155. — Reed Fauvette, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 223. — 
Selby, pi. 45**. fig. 2. p. 169. 
Provincial . — Sedge Wren. Lesser Reed Sparrow.* 
The weight of this species is about three drams ; length five inches 
and a half ; hill dusky above, whitish beneath ; irides hazel ; crown of 
the head and whole upper parts of a yellowish brown, plain on the back 
and sides of the neck, rump, and upper tail coverts ; the rest obscurely 
marked with dusky ; the coverts of the wings more dusky, edged with 
olivaceous brown ; quills the same, but slightly edged ; over the eye a 
whitish stroke ; all the under parts, from the chin to the under tail 
coverts, yellowish white, darkest on the breast and sides ; tail like the 
quills, a little cuneiform, which, when spread, gives it a rounded shape ; 
legs dusky. 
The Sedge Bird comes to us about the middle of April, and leaves 
us again in September. It has a variety of notes, which it delivers in a 
hurried manner, and which partakes of that of the sky lark and the 
swallow, as well as the chatter of the house sparrow. It is frequently by 
the sides of rivers and watery places, where sedge and reeds grow, 
amongst which it makes a nest composed of a little moss intermixed with 
dried stalks, lined with dried grass, and occasionally with a few hairs ; 
sometimes it is fastened between two or three reeds : others we have 
