Text Appearing Before Image: eEeed-Warbler are light coloured, and, if their descriptionshave been made from specimens and not copied, it is notonly clear that birds wdth light-coloured legs (that is, in Mr.Hartings opinion, Marsh-Warblers) are not at all uncom- RERD-\VAHIU,ER. 375 monly met with, but also that the oi-if(iual MotacUla anin-dinacea of Lightfoot was one. The Editor must add that he does not charge with wantof caution those writers who have unhesitatingly admittedthe Marsh-Warbler as a British bird, he can only lamentthat his own power of discrimination is so inferior to theirs.If, before investigating the subject, he had any preposses-sion at all, it was in favour of the occasional appearance ofthe bird in England; but since, according to the ornitho-logists who have studied both species in life, it differs sostrikingly in song and habits from the Reed-Warbler, it ismanifestly unlikely to occur often in this country without itspresence being speedily remarked by our numerous out-of-doors observers. Text Appearing After Image: 376 PASSE RES. SYLVIID.E SYLVIflKI^:.
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