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RUFOUS SEDGE WARBLER. 
Savtearia galactotes, GovuLD. SCHLEGEL. TEMMINCR. 
Sulvia galuciotes, TEMMINCK. 
Salicaria. Salixz—A willow—as one mien say, Willow Bird. 
Galactotes—.......+00+ 
In Europe this newly-discovered British species inhabits 
Greece and Spain. It is also a native of Africa, belonging 
to Egypt; and in Asia has been obtained from the neigh- 
bourhood of Mount Caucasus. 
On the 16th. of September, 1854, one, a male, was shot in 
this country by Mr. G. Swaysland, of Brighton, near a part 
of the Sussex Downs, known by the name of Plumpton 
Bosthill. 
This bird is described as of wary habits. 
The eggs are of a pale greenish white colour, spotted and 
speckled over ‘invicem’ with two shades of darker greenish 
brown. 
Male; length, seven inches. The bill is slightly curved; 
the upper mandible is brown above, the sides pale yellowish 
brown, of which colour is the lower mandible; from the base 
of the bill there is a dark streak going back to the eye. 
iris, reddish brown; over and under the eye, and passing 
backwards, is a short cream-white streak. Head, crown, neck, 
and nape, fawn-colour; chin, throat, and breast, dull white; 
back, fawn-colour. 
The wings have the first quill feather short, the second 
and sixth of nearly equal length, the third, fourth, and fifth 
equal in length, and at the same time the longest in the 
wing. Greater and lesser wing coverts, fawn-colour; primaries 
and secondaries, brown, the outer edges reddish buff; greater 
and lesser under wing coverts, delicate fawn-colour. The tail, 
which is much cuneated, and consists of twelve feathers, has 
