Identifier: historyofbritish04morr (find matches)
Title: A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge

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. Others were procured inCambridgeshire, in the Fens, in the spring of 1840, by Mr.J. Baker, a notice of which was published in the Annalsof Natural History, volume vi., page 155; and a pairsubsequently by Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Saffron Walden. Iam, however, informed by Mr. Bird, that, according to Mr.Frederic Bond, who has also given me the same accounthimself, these Warblers are quite common in Cambridgeshirefens, where they breed regularly every year, as also in Hunt-ingdonshire; the latter gentleman has also procured the nestsfrom Backsbite, in the parish of Milton, near Cambridge—the Alma Mater of more than one race. Wicken Fen, nearEly, is another locality, as S. R. Little, Esq., of St. JohnsCollege, Cambridge, writes me word. A pair were alsoprocured, as stated in the Account of the Birds found inNorfolk, by William Richard Fisher, and John Henry Grurney,Esqrs., at South Walsham, in the summer of 1848. This species is of shy habits, rapidly descending, on alarm,into the reeds.
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SAYls WAEBLER. 73 The note is described as somewhat resembling the sonndmade bj a spinning-wheel: it is generally uttered from thetop of some reed on which the bird perches. The nest, which is placed on the ground, is formed of theleaves of the reed, wound round and interlaced, but withoutany other lining. The eggs are of a whitish colour, minutely speckled nearlyall over with pale red and light grey, in some the red,and in others the grey predominating. Male; length, ^ve inches and a half; bill, brown; head,crown, neck on the back, and nape, reddish brown; chinand throat, almost white; breast, pale reddish brown. Tail,reddish brown, indistinctly barred with darker narrow bands;legs, toes, and claws, pale biown. 7i SEDGE WAEBLER. SEDGE BIED. SEDGE WEEDS. EEED EATJYETTE. Sylvia snJiraria, Latham. * phrngmttia^ Tkmminck. Sahcarta pkraqmitis, Selt^Y. Caiamoherpe phragmitiSy Macgillivrat. Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Salicana—Of or pertaining to willows. Salix—A wiiiovy. The Sedge Bird is

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