340 BRITISH BIRDS. 
LOCUSTELLA LOCUSTELLA. 
GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 
(Prater 10.) 
Ficedula curruca grisea neevia, Briss. Orn. vi. Suppl. p. 112 (1760). 
Motacilla nevia, Bodd. Table Pl. Enl. p. 35. no. 581 (1783). 
Sylvia locustella, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 515 (1790) ; et auctorum plurimorum— 
(Koch), Wolf, Vieillot, Temminck, Meyer, Naumann, Jenyns, Nordmann, (Schlegel), 
(Gray), Sundevall, (Brehm), (Keyserling), (Blasius), (Fleming), (Thompson), 
(Harting), Macgillivray, &e. 
Muscipeta locustella (Lath.), Koch, Syst. baier, Zool. i. p. 166 (1816). 
Muscipeta olivacea, Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 167 (1816). 
Calamoherpe locustella (Zath.), Bote, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 
Curruca locustella (Zath.), Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 218 (1825). 
Locustella locustella (Lath.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 115 (1829). 
Calamoherpe tenuirostris, Brehm, Vig. Deutschl. p. 440 (1831). 
Salicaria locustella (Zath.), Selby, Brit. Orn. p. 199 (1833). 
Locustella sibilans, Gould, B. Ew. letterpress to pl. 102 (1837). 
Locustella avicula, Ray, fide Gould, B. Eur. pl. 103 (1837). 
Locustella rayi, Gould, fide Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. § N. Amer, p. 12 (1838). 
Sibilatrix locustella (Zath.), Macgill. Br. B. ii, p. 399 (1889). 
Psithyreedus locustella (Lath.), Gloger, Gem. Handb. Naturg. p. 298 (1842). 
Locustella neevia (Bodd.), Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 589 (1849). 
Locustella dumeticola, Blyth, White’s Selborne, p. 119 (1850). 
Parnopia locustella (Lath.), Newt. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 11 (1862). 
Calamodyta locustella (Lath.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 210. no, 2972 (1869). 
Acrocephalus nevius (Bodd.), Newton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 384 (1878). 
Threnetria locustella (Lath.), Schauer, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 183. 
The Grasshopper Warbler appears to have been first described by — 
Willughby and Ray in their ‘Ornithologia’ in 1676, under the heading ~ 
of Locustella avicula, from information supplied to them by a Mr. D. 
Johnson, of Brignal, near Greta Bridge, in Yorkshire, possibly the father 
of Mr. Ralph Johnson, to whom Ray, in his preface, acknowledges that 
he and Willughby were indebted for much information respecting British 
birds. They make mention of the spotted back, thighs, and under tail- 
coverts, and of the very rounded tail, which, together with their allusions 
to its grasshopper-like note*, leaves no room for doubt that Pennant was 
perfectly correct in identifying Willughby and Ray’s bird with one which | 
* Mr. Johnson’s letter to Ray is dated 1672, and the habits of the bird described re- 
semble most those of the Wood-Wren ; but the bird sent to Ray, if correctly described, is _ 
certainly not that species, but the Grasshopper Warbler. Possibly Mr. Johnson confounded 
the two notes together. 
