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Identifier: birdsofbritainth00evan (find matches)
Title: The birds of Britain : their distribution and habits
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Arthur Humble, 1872-
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: Cambridge : University Press
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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gard to the plumage. All are aquatic,but the Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus streperus) is seldomfound except in beds of reeds (Phragynitis vulgaris)and does not range north of Yorkshire, or to Ireland:abroad it occurs from south Sweden and south-westernSiberia down to the Mediterranean, north-west Africa,and Baluchistan. The Marsh Warbler (A. palustris)has a shghtly more southern foreign range, and is atpresent only recorded as breeding mth us in Somerset,Gloucester, Worcester, Oxford, Wilts, Hants, Sussex,Kent, Surrey, Bucks, Cambs, and Norfolk; it usuallyhaunts osier holts and damp copses, and eschews reed-beds. The Sedge Warbler (A, scJioenobcenus) breedsthroughout Britain in suitable places, but always nearwater, though a small ditch may suffice, whereas thelast-named species has been known to nest in cornfields. /*(isseres 35 Abroad the Sedge Warbler extends throughout Europefrom 68°—70° N. lat. to the Mediterranean, and west-ward in Asia to north Siberia and the Altai mountains.
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Reed Warblers nest Experts themselves often fail to distinguish skins of theReed and Marsh Warblers, but the latter is more oliveabove and has brownish flesh-coloured in place of 3—2 36 Order I purplish brown legs. Both these birds are nearly whitebelow and have an obscure buff streak over the eye :the Sedge Warbler on the contrary has a buff breast,a distinct yelloAvish white eye-streak, and a streakedinstead of a plain crown. The respective haunts andhabits are, however, characteristic, while the birds,though in constant motion except when singing, canscarcely be called shy and are easily observed. When notbuilt in herbaceous plants or bushes, the Reed Warblersnest is slung between three or four reeds standing inwater, and is an elongated structure with a deep cup, linedwith w^ool or hair, to contain the four or five greenishwhite eggs with olive and grey blotching; it almostdwindles to a point below, and is a curiously hard-lookingfabric, which, it may be remarked, is one of the

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