. A history of British birds. Birds. MARSH-WARBLER. 379 on the large end of the egg, sometimes so thickly as to almost conceal the ground-colour. They vary in length from '8 to "65 inch, and in breadth from '59 to 02 inch. The Marsh-Warbler has the general colour of the upper parts varying from olive-brown in spi-ing plumage to earthy brown in summer plumage, with a scarcely perceptible shade of rufous after the autumn moult, slightly paler on the rump ; the eye-stripe is nearly obsolete; and the innermost secondaries have broad ill-defined pale edges. The breast, flanks, and under tail-c
. A history of British birds. Birds. MARSH-WARBLER. 379 on the large end of the egg, sometimes so thickly as to almost conceal the ground-colour. They vary in length from '8 to "65 inch, and in breadth from '59 to 02 inch. The Marsh-Warbler has the general colour of the upper parts varying from olive-brown in spi-ing plumage to earthy brown in summer plumage, with a scarcely perceptible shade of rufous after the autumn moult, slightly paler on the rump ; the eye-stripe is nearly obsolete; and the innermost secondaries have broad ill-defined pale edges. The breast, flanks, and under tail-coverts are pale buff, shading into nearly white on the chin, throat, and the centre of the belly. After the autumn moult the underparts are suffused with bu^ff. Bill dark brown above, pale below; legs, feet, and claws pale horn-colour; irides hazel. Freshly moulted birds of this species may always be distinguished from Reed-Warblers by the colour of the rump. In the Marsh-Warbler it is olive-brown, and in the Reed-Warbler russet-brown. There is no diffe- rence in the wing-formula of these two Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, Pub. for the author by R. H. Porter [etc. ]
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