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SEDGE WARBLER. 
SEDGE BIRD. SEDGE WREN. REED FAUVETTE. 
Sylvia salicaria, | LATHAM. 
“<  phragmitis, TEMMINCKE. 
Salicaria phragqmitis, SELBY. 
Calamoherpe phragmitis, MAcsILLivRay. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Salicaria—Of or pertaining to willows. 
Saliz—A willow. 
Tue Sedge Bird is generally spread over Europe, its range 
extending even to the Arctic Circle; in the middle parts of 
the continent, it is however the most numerous. In Holland 
it is very abundant; and is found also in France and Germany, 
Norway, Russia, and Siberia, Italy and Sweden. In Asia, 
it has been noticed by my friend Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland, 
in Asia Minor. 
Throughout England it is more or less abundant, according 
to the nature of the locality. In Yorkshire this bird is 
very common in the Driffield neighbourhood, and also near 
Thirsk, Doncaster, Barnsley, Sheffield, Hobmoor, York, Swil- 
lington, and Brotherton, in fact in most parts; near Halifax 
and Huddersfield it is less numerous. It is plentiful also in 
Essex, Suffolk, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Norfolk, 
Lincolnshire, Northumberland, and Lancashire. In Cornwall 
it seems to be not uncommon. 
In Scotland it is nowhere abundant, but is most met 
with in the southern and middle divisions. In Sutherland- 
shire it is constantly to be heard at night, about reedy lochs 
and swamps, and is to be met with even to the northern- 
most extremity. The Sedge Warbler, as its name imports, 
is for the most part found in the neighbourhood of water, 
but such is not exclusively the case, for it often resorts to 
thick hedges, lanes, and other cover at some distance from 
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