. An illustrated manual of British birds . it flits from oneclump of reeds to another, or sits high upon one of the upper stems,uttering its loud harsh song, karra-karra-karra, karee-karee-karee,chai-ra-cha7-ra-charra ; it has also a croaking note when sings from early morning till late at night. Its food consistsprincipally of insects and their larvae; but in autumn it is said toeat berries, especially those of the elder. The adult male has a dull whitish streak from the nostrils overeach eye ; the upper parts warm olive-brown, with paler tips andmargins to the feathers of the wing
. An illustrated manual of British birds . it flits from oneclump of reeds to another, or sits high upon one of the upper stems,uttering its loud harsh song, karra-karra-karra, karee-karee-karee,chai-ra-cha7-ra-charra ; it has also a croaking note when sings from early morning till late at night. Its food consistsprincipally of insects and their larvae; but in autumn it is said toeat berries, especially those of the elder. The adult male has a dull whitish streak from the nostrils overeach eye ; the upper parts warm olive-brown, with paler tips andmargins to the feathers of the wings and graduated tail; under partswarm buff, whiter on the throat and belly; bill brown, yellowish atthe base ; inside of the mouth orange-yellow; irides brown; legspale horn-colour. Length 8 in. ; wing to the tip of the 3rd andlongest quill (the first or bastard being very small) 3-8 in. Thefemale is slightly smaller. The young are more fulvous on theunder parts, and are slightly striated on the sides of the neck andthroat. syLviin.^^. 77. THE SEDGE phra(;mitis (Bechstein). The Sedge-Warbler or Sedge-bird arrives in our islands duringthe latter half of i^pril, and from that time until the latter part ofSeptember it is the most abundant and generally distributedmember of the genus; while occasionally examples have beenobserved late in October and even in winter. It breeds inevery county of Great Britain ; although somewhat locally in theextreme north, and very sparingly in the Isle of Skye ; west of whichI do not trace it. Mr. T. E. Buckley observed about three pairsfrequenting a garden, in summer, on Rousay in the Orkneys ; butit is not yet recorded from the Shetlands. To Ireland it is a regularand widely distributed visitor in summer. In Norway the Sedge-Warbler is found as far north as lat. 70° ;and eastward, it can be traced across Sweden. North Russia, andSiberia to lat. 67° in the valley of the Yenesei. Southward, itsbreeding-range extends to North-w
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