THE REED-WARBLERS. 
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mav verv easily have been overlooked and mistaken for the 
Sed J warWen Three authentic instances of ns occurrence 
i,„e been recoried, SiSwat 
sprnnd example from Leicestershire, obtained in the summer 
of 1864, and there is a third specimen, killed near Dover, in re 
Museum of the latter town. 
aw ..Bid, tt. Briti.li Islands. The Aquatic : Warbler breeds 
in molt portion, of Central Europe, a. far as the - » 
mark and the Baltic Provinces, but is of rare occurie 
Holland and Belgium, and only visits Northern trance on 
migration It also occurs in Heligoland occasional y. » 
Italy as well as in Sicily and Sardinia, it breeds, but is recorded 
by Mr Howard Saunders as an autumn migrant only in 
Snain ' In Poland and South Russia it also occurs, reaching 
toTe Ural Mountains as high as 56° N. tat. The winter home 
is probably North Africa. 
TX ft Avriv, s at its nesting quarters towards the end ot 
AtSl oTiT or ; bofo,e tbo fc sVw f blob ="<1 h~d. . 
Mo'ar “than that bird. I.ortI Ulford ha, found it to he 
tST. toed loving species than the 
Seebohm says that its home is more in the swamps, neglect „ 
the lame reed-beds, and choosing the ditches, ponds, and banks 
of lakes and ivers, which abound in coarse aquatic vegetaHon 
^d Sing especially partial to sedges, in which tt del* s ,0 
hide “Tangled masses of wild-roses, brambles, ‘ 
bushes are also placet « where i it is often found 
rnnerpners it is an active ana restless uiru, j 
congeners n 10 , . approach of dan- 
cautious and sly, concealing itself on the tea 1 i d 
„ Pr Tt is said never to hop, but on a branch or on the grouna 
ger. it is sciiu 1 ^ rp, „ : s described as like that 
to rim almost like a Mouse. I he song is oese 
of the Sedge-Warbler, but > s u n ot so long, and lacks 
flute-like notes of the latter bird. {Seebohm, l.c.) 
Hest —Placed near the ground, sometimes at a height of a 
but bu.lt in a bunch of sedgeorwaterpla , su ded 
bi“o Sr7.be". planlsf which ate woven into 
