. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland,in Asia Minor. Throughout England it is more or less abundant, accordingto the nature of the locality. In Yorkshire this bird isvery common in the Driffield neighbourhood, and also nearThirsk, Doncaster, Barnsley, Sheffield, Hobmoor, York, Swil-lini^ton, and Brotherton, in fact in most parts; near Halifaxand Huddersfield it is less numerous. It is plentiful also inEssex. Suffolk, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Norfolk,Lincolnshire, Northumberland, and Lancashire. In Cornwallit seems to be not uncommon. In
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland,in Asia Minor. Throughout England it is more or less abundant, accordingto the nature of the locality. In Yorkshire this bird isvery common in the Driffield neighbourhood, and also nearThirsk, Doncaster, Barnsley, Sheffield, Hobmoor, York, Swil-lini^ton, and Brotherton, in fact in most parts; near Halifaxand Huddersfield it is less numerous. It is plentiful also inEssex. Suffolk, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Norfolk,Lincolnshire, Northumberland, and Lancashire. In Cornwallit seems to be not uncommon. In Scotland it is nowhere abundant, but is most metwith in the southern and middle divisions. In Sutherland-shire it is constantly to be heard at night, about reedy lochsand swamps, and is to be met with even to the northern-most extremity. The Sedge Warbler, as its name imports,is for the most part found in the neighbourhood of water,but such is not exclusively the case, for it often resorts tothick hedges, lanes, and other cover at some distance SEDGE WAEBLER. 75 It misrrates to us the latter part of April, or sometimeslater with the season, seldom arriving in Scotland beforethe beginning of May. The males are believed to arrivebefore the females. They come in small parties of from twoto five or six each. They are late in leaving, some beingseen till the middle of October, even in the north of Eni^land:one has beer^observed near High Wycombe, in Buckingham-shire, in winter. This ^s another species of hidling, though not exactly ofshy habits, and is most frequently seen if disturbed, forotherwise it keeps to its haunt in the middle of the thickhedge, tall sedg^e, reeds, or other aquatic plants among whichit harbours. This very day on which I am writing, I watchedone for some time playing at hide and seek with me, in somelarge hawthorn bushes which covered the steep bank of astream, overhanging it almost down to the waters edge;beyond all doubt the nest was there. Now
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