346 BRITISH BIRDS. 
LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIOIDES. 
SAVI’S WARBLER. 
(Piate 10.) 
Sylvia luscinioides, Savi, Nuovo Giornale dei Letterati, vii. p. 841 (1824); et aucto- 
rum plurimorum—Temminck, (Gould), J Yordmann, ( Gray), (Schlegel), (Salva- 
dori), (Newton), (Dresser), Se. 
Locustella luscinioides (Savi), Gould, B. Eur, ii. pl. 104 (1837). 
Pseudoluscinia saviil, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur, § N. Amer. p. 12 (1838). 
Salicaria luscinioides (Sav), Keys. u. Blas. Wirb. Eur. pp. liii, 180 (1840). 
Lusciniopsis savii (Bp.), Bonap. Uce. Eur. p. 86 (1842). 
Calamodyta luscinioides (Savi), Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 172 (1848). 
Cettia luscinioides (Savi), L. Gerbe, Dict. Univ. d’ Hist. Nat. vi. p. 240 (1848). 
Calamoherpe luscinioides (Savi), Schi. Vog. Nederl. p. 149 (1854). 
Lusciniola savii (Bp.), Bonap. Cat. Parzud. p. 6 (1856). 
Locustella savii (Bp.), Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 356. 
Lusciniopsis luscinioides (Savi), Nevwt. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 11 (1862). 
Pseudoluscinia luscinioides (Savi), Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 89 (1872). 
Acrocephalus luscinioides (Sav), Newton ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 889 (1873). 
Cettia fusca, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 131 (1873) 
Sylvia (Threnetria) luscinioides (Savi), Schauer, Journ. pe. 1873, p. 161. 
Threnetria acheta, Schauer, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 183. 
Potamodus luscinioides (Savi), Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 199 (1876). 
Savi’s Warbler has every claim to be included in a work on British 
Birds, though it is in all probability extinct in our islands. The marshes 
where it formerly bred have been to a great extent drained; and nothing 
has been seen of this interesting bird in its old localities during the last 
five-and-twenty years. So far as is known, the first Savi’s Warbler ever 
obtained was shot ten miles south-east of Norwich, about the year 1819. 
Temminck pronounced the bird to be a variety of the Reed-Warbler, and 
afterwards seems to have confounded it with Cetti’s Warbler. Savi did 
not describe the species until five years later; and it cannot be said to 
have become generally known until Temminck published his Manual of 
Ornithology in 1835. Many examples of Savi’s Warbler, as well as nests 
and eggs of this bird, were obtained at various dates from 1843 to 1856 in 
the fens of Norfolk and Cambridge and in one or two other adjoining 
counties. It is not known that Savi’s Warbler has occurred in any other 
district in the British Isles. 
On the continent the distribution of this species is also somewhat 
restricted, though in many localities it is a common bird. It is never 
found except in reed-beds ; but in most places where these occur of suffi- 
cient size, in Spain, the south of France, Holland, Italy, Austria, and 
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