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of the £Tardens of tlie central portions of Enoland; its nest is also frequently found among reeds and bushes 
overhanging water. Besides our own country, this species frequents Central Europe and Northern Africa. 
125. Calamoherpe palustris .......... Vol. II. PI. LXXIV, 
Maush-Warbler. 
Supposed to inhabit many parts of England, and to have been often confounded with the preceding; said 
to arrive at the same time and to be more exclusively aquatic in its habits. Is considered always to 
have lighter-coloured legs and to present other, minor dift’erences, which may be more easily seen by 
consulting the respective Plates than by the most minute description. Should it ultimately prove that 
the C. palmtrh is found here, it must be regarded as a regular summer visitant. 
Genus Calamodyta. 
The members of this genus are smaller in size than the Calamoherpcs, and are less uniform in the colouring 
of their plumage. The situations affected by both are identical, reeds and aquatic herbage being apparently 
necessary to their existence; at all events it is in such situations that they pour forth their querulous songs 
both by day and by night. The CalamodytcB are very generally distributed over the temperate portions of 
Europe, Africa, and Asia. 
126. Calamodyta phragmitis .......... Vol. II. PI. LXXV, 
Sedge-Warbler or Chat. 
A bird of the summer, which arrives early in May and spreads itself over England and Ireland, but not, 
according to Sir William Jardine and Macgillivray, visiting Scotland. After breeding, it departs again to 
Morocco or some other part of Africa. 
127. Calamodyta aquatica Vol. 11. PI. LXXVI. 
Aquatic Warbler. 
Somewhat rare in Central and Southern Europe. Has been killed two or three times in England, where 
it must be regarded merely as an accidental visitor. 
Genus Lusciniopsis. 
According to Mr. Gray s ‘ Hand-list of Birds,’ two generic titles have been proposed by Bonaparte for the 
single known species of this form, viz. Pseudoluscinia and Lusciniopsis ; the latter term has been employed in 
the present work. 
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