. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . are all of very small frequent low marshy grounds, overgrown with rankplants, among which they pursue their prey, consisting of in-sects and occasionally small mollusca, seldom shewing them-selves, but skulking as it were among the herbage. Thegenus is closely allied on the one hand to Sylvia, and on theother to Anorthura, several spe
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . are all of very small frequent low marshy grounds, overgrown with rankplants, among which they pursue their prey, consisting of in-sects and occasionally small mollusca, seldom shewing them-selves, but skulking as it were among the herbage. Thegenus is closely allied on the one hand to Sylvia, and on theother to Anorthura, several species of both these genera ex-hibiting not only considerable resemblance as to form, butalso a great similarity in their habits. Two species occurin Britain, the Sedge Reedling, and the Marsh Reedling,both summer birds. As specific names ought to remain as much as possible un-altered, that amid the fluctuations of opinion something of no-menclature may remain, I have adopted the name Calamoherpeof Meyer, which is expressive of the habits of the species, andthat of Reedling, proposed by Mr Blyth, and employed by MrNeville Wood in his excellent British Song Birds. 390 CALAMOHERPE PHRAGMITIS. THE SEDGEREEDLING. SEDGE WARBLER. SEDGE-BIRD. Sylvia Salicaria. Lath. Ind. Oin. II. 516. Sedge Warbler. Mont. Orn. Diet. Bee-fin phragmite. Sylvia Phragmitis. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 189. Sedge-Warbler. Salicaria Phragmitis. Selb. lUustr. I. 201. Sylvia Phragmitis. Sedge Warbler. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 106. Tail rather long and slightly rounded; the upper part of thehead broicnish-black, the feathers edged icith light brown ; theback and icing-coterts light olive-brown tinged with yellow, thecentral part of each feather dark brown ; the rump light reddish-broicn; a yellowish-white streak over the eye ; the lower partsbrownish-white, the tail-coverts unspotted. Male.—The Sedge Reedling is a delicate and lively littlebird, which frequents the margins of streams and pools over-grown with
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