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Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds Passeriformes
Publisher: London : Caxton Pub. Co.
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rmixed with moss, wool, spiders webs,vegetable down, bark, and lichen, and lined with rootlets, bents, and horsehair ;four to five, or rarely six, eggs are laid, of pinky-brownish colour, uniformlyspotted and occasionally streaked with purplish-brown, sometimes very deep incolour ; shell-markings ill-defined. The song of this species is somewhat harsh, though strong and varied : tocompare it with that of the Nightingale, as has been done, is generally regardedas a libel on the performance of that most excellent songster. It is in the highest degree improbable that either of these species will fallinto the hands of any of the readers of this present work: should they have thegood fortune to meet with them I hope that, in the interests both of humanityand science they will not shoot them ; but, if possible, capture and study themliving. It is a melancholy fact that almost every rare bird which accidentallywanders to our shores is doomed to be shot, for the mere satisfaction of labelling
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The Reed-Warbler. 107 it as British; the same individual, if shot in the land of its birth, would probablybe valued at a shilling or less. We now come to the Reed-Warblers, whose suspended nests are often takenand preserved as ornaments by mere admirers of the beautiful ; without onethought of the little architects, or the faintest desire to know anything respectingthem. Family—TURD ID.-E. Subfamily—SYL VIIN^. The Reed-Warbler. Acroccphaliis strepcrus, ViEILL. SEEBOHM states that, on the Continent, the Reed-Warbler is found insuitable localities in summer throughout Europe, south of latitude 58°, andin Asia Minor, Palestine, South-west Siberia, Turkestan, Persia, Baluchistan,and probably in Afghanistan. It is said to be a resident in Greece and thesurrounding islands ; but it passes through North Africa on migration, andwinters in Central Africa. In Great Britain this species is local, being very common in the southerncoiinties, with the exception of Cornwall and the Scilly Islan

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