This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ... is completely hidden in the middle of some large tuft, through which there is no entrance but such as the bird threads for herself, creeping along like a mouse to and into it. The eggs are from five or six to seven in number, of a pale reddish white colour, freckled all over with specks of darker red; they seldom vary ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ... is completely hidden in the middle of some large tuft, through which there is no entrance but such as the bird threads for herself, creeping along like a mouse to and into it. The eggs are from five or six to seven in number, of a pale reddish white colour, freckled all over with specks of darker red; they seldom vary much. The young soon quit the nest on being disturbed, trusting by instinct to their habitual powers of concealment. THE nest, which is placed on the ground, is formed of the leaves of the reed, wound round and interlaced, but without any other lining-. It is begun the middle or towards the end of May, by which time, or early in June, the eggs are laid. Both birds sit, and very sedulously. The eggs are of a whitish colour, minutely speckled nearly all over with pale red and light grey, in some the red, and in others the grey, predominating. One, figured by Professor Thieneman, is mottled over on a grey ground with small yellow blots. 84 SEDGE WARBLER. SEDGE WARBLER. SEDGE BIRD. SEDGE WREN. REED FAUVETTE. PLATE CXVI. Sylvia salicaria Latham. Sylvia Phragmitis, Temminck. Salicaria Phragmitis, Selby. Calamoherpe PAragmitit, M Acoillivray. "TVT. Rowe, Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has-Ll taken the nest in a Seringa tree. It is usually placed at about two, and never at a greater height than three or four feet from the ground, on a stump of a willow or alder tree, but generally among the tall grass or flags that grow along the side of the river or pool. G. B. Clarke, Esq., of Woburn, has been kind enough to forward me specimens of the nest and eggs. So has also James Dalton Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford. The nest is made of stalks of grass, and other smaller plants, lined with finer parts of the same and hair: it is rather large, an...
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