reed-sparrow

Moorhens, coots and dabchicks are abundant; the reed-sparrow is heard only in a few districts.

Hertfordshire

Only a solitary cracked-voiced reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Only a solitary cracked-voice reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

The kingfisher did not come -- no doubt he had been shot -- but a reed-sparrow did, in velvet black cap and dainty brown, pottering about the willow near me.

The Open Air

Nothing at present is safe, not so much as a reed-sparrow, not even the martins that hover over the stormy reaches.

The Life of the Fields

Upon the willow trees which border it, a reed-sparrow or blackheaded bunting may often be observed.

Nature Near London

The reed-sparrow or bunting sits upon the spray over the ditch with its carex grass and rushes; he is a graceful bird, with a crown of glossy black.

Round About a Great Estate

By the brook, and we found the reed-sparrow deep-nested, in brown --

Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.

Less _Passer May, on to reed-sparrow. arundinaceus beginning of July. minor_.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1

Was your reed-sparrow, which you kept in a cage, the thick-billed reed-sparrow of the Zoology, p. 320; or was it the less reed-sparrow of

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1