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SEDGE-WARBLER.

Sylvia phragmitis, Meyer, British Birds, folio Ed., vol. i. (coloured plate figuring adult and egg) [1835-43].
Salicaria phragmitis, Hewitson, British Oology, 1st Ed., vol. i, pl. 70, fig. 2 (egg) [1836]; id., Eggs of British Birds, 2nd Ed., vol. i, p. 87, pl. 25, fig. 2 (egg), 1846; id. id., 3rd Ed., vol. i, pp. 117-118, pl. 31, fig. 3 (egg), 1856; Booth, Bough Notes, vol. ii, pp. 43-44, 1883.
Calamoherpe phragmitis, Macgillivray, British Birds, vol. ii, pp. 390-394 (woodcut of head), 1839.
Calamodyta phragmitis, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2pp, pl. 75 (coloured figures of adult male and female), 1862.
Acrocephalus schœnobænus, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., vol. i, edited by Newton, pp. 376-379 (woodcut), 1873; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 597-601, pl. 90, fig. 2 (coloured figure of adult male), 1876.
Acrocephalus phragmitis, Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 352-356, pl. 10, fig. 17 (egg), 1883; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 40, pl. 20 (coloured figure of adult male), 1886; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 85-86 (woodcut), 1898.

Arabian, Fisseu; Croatian, Vodarisa rogocara; Czechisch, Mysak; Danish, Sivsanger; Dutch, Bietzanger; Finnish, Buohoherttu; French, Bec-fin phragmite; German, Schilf-Rohrsänger; Hungarian, Foltos sitke; Italian, Forapaglie; Maltese, Violin; Norwegian, Sivsanger; Polish, Trzciniak rokit-niczka; Russian, Kamyschefka kamyschewaja; Spanish, Buscarla; Swedish, Säfsångare.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE.

Adults in Spring.—The sexes are alike, the male, perhaps, being a trifle brighter and rather larger, but on the other hand a bright female may surpass a dull-coloured male. The upper parts are of an umber brown tint shading into an almost unspotted rusty brown on the rump and upper tail-coverts. There is a conspicuous buffish white superciliary stripe and above that an equally conspicuous blackish stripe; the feathers in the middle part of the crown

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