Great Reed Warbler and its nest Finish:Single The procedures included provisions for

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Great Reed Warbler and its nest Finish:Single The procedures included provisions forPlate 1 from the paper 'An account of an English bird of the genus Motacilla, supposed to be hitherto unnoticed by British ornithologists', by John Lightfoot, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 8 15. Study of the bird classified and described by John Lightfoot FRS (1735 1788) clergyman and naturalist in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, as Motacilla arundinacea [Acrocephalus arundinaceus]. The bird is shown nesting in a