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MARSH WARBLER.

 

Calamoherpe palustris, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp., pl. 74 (coloured figures of adults), 1872.

Acrocephalus palustris, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., vol. i, p. 373 (edited by Newton), 1873, and vol. iii, p. viii (edited by Saunders), 1884; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 573-577, pl. 87, fig. 2 (coloured figure of adult), 1876; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 375-379, pl. 10, fig. 15 (egg), 1883; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 38, pl. 19 (coloured figure of adult), 1886; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 81-82 (woodcut), 1898.

Croatian, Trstenjara Malakavka; Danish, Sumpsanger; Dutch, Boschriet-zanger; French, Rousserolle verderolle; German, Sumpf-Bohrsanger; Italian, Cannajola verdognola; Hungarian, Füzi nádarigó; Russian, Bolotnaja, Malinofka; Spanish, Canamera, Pinzoleta.

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE.

 

Adult Male in Spring.—The upper parts are of a uniform brownish tinge inclining more or less towards olive brown, the colour being rather darker on the crown, but more intense and slightly lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts. The tail and flight feathers are brown narrowly edged with the same colour as the upper parts, the outer web of the primaries being tipped with greyish white, the outermost primary narrowly edged with light buff, and the innermost secondaries with the rest of the wing-coverts broadly margined with the same colour as the upper parts. There is a distinct buffish

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