. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. THE MARSH-WARBLER. AcROCEPHALUS PAn5sTRis (Bechstein). It is difficult to show in a wood-cut the points of difference between this species and the Reed-Warbler; nor, for that matter, can much be said in favour of many of the coloured illustrations which are supposed to represent the Marsh-Warbler. Gould's coloured plate in the ' Birds of Great Britain' undoubtedly repre- sents a Reed-Warbler ; so does, in my opinion, one in the late Lord Lilford's ' Birds of the British Islands'; while in Mr. Dresser's plate of the two species in his
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. THE MARSH-WARBLER. AcROCEPHALUS PAn5sTRis (Bechstein). It is difficult to show in a wood-cut the points of difference between this species and the Reed-Warbler; nor, for that matter, can much be said in favour of many of the coloured illustrations which are supposed to represent the Marsh-Warbler. Gould's coloured plate in the ' Birds of Great Britain' undoubtedly repre- sents a Reed-Warbler ; so does, in my opinion, one in the late Lord Lilford's ' Birds of the British Islands'; while in Mr. Dresser's plate of the two species in his ' Birds of Europe' the respective tints are inadequately rendered, and the legs of the Marsh-Warbler are wrongly coloured stone-grey, although accurately described in the letterpress. The legs of the Marsh-Warbler are pale brownish flesh-colour ; the general hue of the upper parts is at all times less rufous than in the Reed-Warbler, and distinctly greenish olive-brown; while, except when much abraded, the wing-feathers are more tipped and margined with pale buff. The under parts are tinged with sulphur-buff: not rufous-buff, as in the Reed-Warbler. The Marsh-Warbler was first noticed in England as a spring- visitor in small numbers to Somersetshire, particularly to the neigh- bourhood of Taunton; several nests have since been found near Bath, as well as in Gloucestershire, while in Oxfordshire the. 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 Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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