Identifier: historyofbritish01yarre (find matches)
Title: A history of British birds
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Yarrell, William, 1784-1856 Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, J. Van Voorst
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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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.
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