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REED WARBLER. 
NIGHT WARBLER. REED WREN. 
Sylvia arundinacea, PENNANT. BEWICK, 
Motacilla arundinacea, MonTAGU. 
Curruca arundinacea, FLEMING. 
Salicaria arundinacea, SELBy. GOULD. 
Passer arundinacea minor, Ray. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Arundinacea—Of, or appertaining to reeds. 
Arundo—A reed. a 
Tue Reed Warbler is abundant in Holland, Italy, Germany, 
and France, and is found in other temperate parts of Europe, 
but is more rare in the south. 
The Rev. John Lightfoot was the first to notice this bird 
as a British one, and his acconnt of it, communicated to 
Sir Joseph Banks, was read before the Royal Society, and 
printed in their Transactions for the year 1785. Now, however, 
it is plentifully known, though somewhat locally m many 
parts. In Yorkshire it is tolerably common in some districts; 
among others, near Thirsk and Huddersfield, and has been 
met with near Ripon. It builds in the gardens of Worcester 
College, Oxford, as James Dalton, Esq. has informed me. 
In the counties of Essex, near Epping; in Surrey, on the 
Abbey River; and in Kent, about Romney Marsh and Sandwich. | 
In Suffolk, near Sudbury; Staffordshire, near Tutbury; in 
Norfolk, near Yarmouth; in Nottinghamshire; Staffordshire, 
by the Trent; Sussex, near Arundel; Northamptonshire; 
Derbyshire, near Melbourne, and other parts; Oxfordshire, 
and near London. In Devonshire it is considered rare; also 
in Cornwall. 
In Ireland Mr. Templeton saw one near Belfast; and 
Robert J. Montgomery, Esq., of The Manor House, Raheny, 
near Dublin, shot one there on the 21st. of December, 1848. 
