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Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds Passeriformes
Publisher: London : Caxton Pub. Co.
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- streak; lores and ear-coverts smoky-brown ; chin and throat white ; centre of abdomen whitish; remain-der of body below buff; upper mandible blackish-brown, lower mandible yellowishhorn-brown, darker towards the tip; feet pale brown; iris bright hazel. Thefemale is slightly duller than the male, and the reddish colouring of the rumpand upper tail-coverts is less pronounced. Young birds have the breast trans-versely spotted with smoky-brown. The Sedge-Warbler appears at its brcediug haunts towards the end of April,or the beginning of May, and leaves us again in September or October. Although
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/ <^ The Sedge-Warbler. 117 not always strictly confined to sedges and reeds, it is almost invariably to befound in the neigbbourhood of water; * thus in Kent I met with it in numbersin a plantation which was frequently converted into a marsh by the overflow of amill-stream, and in Norfolk, in lanes within a stones-throw of the broads. With-out question the best and most likely situations in which to look for the nest arein reeds and sedges, or in willows or hawthorns overhanging the water: and hereI feel constrained to contradict a statement which has been made, respecting thesituation of the nest, by several excellent observers and well-known Ornithologists.Seebohm and others assert that the nest of this bird is never suspended betweenthe reeds like the Reed-Warblers, but is supported by the branches; j^et of themany nests which I took on the Ormesby broads in 1885 and 1886, nearly allwere suspended precisel) like those of the Reed-Warbler, several reeds beinginterwoven loosely i

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