WARBLERS. 15 
SAVIS WARBLER. Salicaria luscinoides (Savi). 
Formerly a regular summer migrant to the eastern 
counties, until the fen-lands were drained ; and used to 
nest annually in the fens of Wicken, Burwell, and 
Whittlesea. ‘The eggs have also been taken in Essex, 
Kent, and Devonshire. It can now only be considered 
an occasional summer visitant to England, and is un- 
known in Scotland and Ireland. A nest of Savi’s 
Warbler, composed of the long narrow leaves of the 
common reed (Arundo phragmitis), and taken at 
Baitsbite, Cambridgeshire, is figured in the ‘ Zoologist,’ 
1846, p. 1307. 
NIGHTINGALE.  Luscinia philomela (Bonaparte). 
A summer migrant; very rare in Scotland, and 
unknown in Ireland. As regards Scotland, two in- 
stances only are on record of its occurrence north of 
the Tweed. The first is noticed by Macgillivray in 
his ‘ History of British Birds,’ the second by Turnbull 
in his ‘ Birds of East Lothian.’ 
BLACKCAP. Sylvia atricapilla (Linneus). 
A summer migrant; rare in Scotland and in Ireland. 
GARDEN WARBLER. Sylvia hortensis (Gmelin). 
A summer migrant to England and the south of 
Scotland. In Ireland it is stated by Mr. Thompson 
to be extremely rare; and he only refers to its occur- 
rence in two counties, Cork and Tipperary. Mr. Blake 
Knox, however, has met with it in the county of Dub- 
