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reed-sparrow
[reed n.1]
a. A common British bird, Emberiza schœniclus, frequenting reedy places. Also called reed-bunting.
b. The sedge-warbler.
The two were formerly sometimes distinguished as (a) greater reed-sparrow and (b) lesser reed-sparrow. The former is not a song-bird (cf. quot. 1802).
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 702 Hic palustris, a rede-sparowe. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1088 Larks, Gnat-snappers, Reed-sparrows, and many other birds,..do feed on the Worms of trees and herbs. 1676Willughby Ornith. ii. 99 The lesser Reed-sparrow. Ibid., The greater Reed-sparrow. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 501 The Reed-sparrow. The Fringilla, with a black head, brown at the sides and with a white ring. 1769G. White Selborne xxiv, The person that shot it says that it sung so like a reed-sparrow that he took it for one. 1802Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1831) 416 There can be no doubt..that the nest, as well as the song of the sedge bird, have been taken..for those of the Reed Sparrow. 1884Public Opin. 5 Sept. 299/1 Here a reed-sparrow, deep-nested and brown, and there a snipe darting away. |