. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . 1852. Mr. JohnHancock procured the eorg of another from Northamptonshire;and N. Rowe, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has informedme that two eggs of this rare Biitish bird were taken at Stad-discombe, near Plymouth, in Devonshire, in 1850, and thatthe Kev. H. Itoundell procured others in Kent. Its song, which is chiefly heard by nii2:ht, is strong, loud,and deep; but, though more powerful, not so melodious asthat of the Nightingale. The nest is built in small thickets, but most frequentlyin low and damp situations. The eggs are of
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . 1852. Mr. JohnHancock procured the eorg of another from Northamptonshire;and N. Rowe, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has informedme that two eggs of this rare Biitish bird were taken at Stad-discombe, near Plymouth, in Devonshire, in 1850, and thatthe Kev. H. Itoundell procured others in Kent. Its song, which is chiefly heard by nii2:ht, is strong, loud,and deep; but, though more powerful, not so melodious asthat of the Nightingale. The nest is built in small thickets, but most frequentlyin low and damp situations. The eggs are of a brownish olive colour, stained with deepbrown. Male; bill, dark brown; head, crown, neck on the back, andnape, dark brown; chin, white; throat, whitish; breast, clear 90 THEUSH NIGHTINGALE. greyish brown, spotted with dark dashes; back, dark and lesser wing coverts, reddish brown; primaries^secondaries, and tertiaries, brown. Tail, rich brownish red;legs and toes, light reddish brown; claws, blackish female resembles the 01 GREAT SEDGE WARBLER. Salicaria turdoides, Selby, Salfx—A willow. Turdoides. Turdus^A. ThriTih. Eidos—ThQ likeness or resemblance of any tiling. I AM exceedingly happy in being able to giye a figure ofthe present species as a new British bird, having receivedinformation from Mr. Chaffey, of Dodington, Kent—informationwhich may be most implicitly relied on—that one was killedin Kent on the 4th. of May, 1853, by the side of a pondnear Sittingbomne, by Mr. Gr. Thomas, of that place. The Great Sedge Warbler is exceedingly abundant inHolland, and frequents also the low flat lands of France tothe shores of the English Channel, so that it is anythingbut surprising that one should have found its way across, aPathfinder perhaps for many another, or still more probably,a follower of many others which may have come over inprevious ^^ears and have been overlooked. Its food consists of insects—the smaller dragon-flies, gnats,and
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