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126. Savi's Warbler, Locustella luscinoides (Savi). 



Plate 28, fig. 15—17 (Hungary). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Tab. XXI, fig. 12; IC, tig. 12, a— c. 

 Hewitson, II Ed. I, pi. XXV;* III Ed. pi. XXXI, fig. 2. Naumannia, 

 1853, Taf. II, fig. 6. Baedeker, Tab. 19, fig. 20. Taczanowski, Tab. 

 XLVI. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 10; id. Col. Fig. pi. 52. Frohawk, 

 Br. Birds, I, pi. II, fig. 64. Dresser, pi. — , fig. 31, 32, 37, 38. 



British Local Name: Night Reeder (obs.). Foreign Names: 

 Bohemia: Bdkosnik slavikovy. France: Fauvette des Sanies. Germany: 

 Nachtigall - Bohrsanger. Holland : Nachtegaal - Rietzanger. Hungary: 

 Nddi tiicsokmaddr. Italy: Salciajola. Poland: Brzeczka. Russia: Kamy- 

 schefka solowjinaja. 



Locustella luscinoides (Savi). Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 389. Dresser, 

 B. of Europe, II, p. 627 and Man. PaL Birds, p. 136. Saunders, Man. 

 p. 91. L. luscinoides luscinoides (Savi). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 548. 



Breeding Range: Continental Europe W. of the Rhine, Holland, 

 Italy, Sicily, Austro - Hungary, Poland, Mid- and S. Russia, and the 

 Danubian States; formerly in the English Fens. [Aso N. W. Africa, 

 and possibly Lower Egypt.] 



Formerly this bird bred in the Cambridgeshire fens (Milton, Burwell, British 

 and Wicken fens) as well as in Huntington (Wood Walton), and Norfolk 

 (Surlingham and probably other broads). Details will be found in 

 Newton's article, but here it is sufficient to state that the last British 

 nest was taken in Norfolk in 1856. It is also said on very slight evi- 

 dence to have bred in Essex and other counties.* 



In Spain it is not uncommon locally in the marshes of the lower ^°"" 

 Guadalquivir, and also in certain lagunas of southern Andalucia, while Europe. 

 it is said to have bred at the Albufera (Valencia), and near Coimbra in 

 Portugal. In France it appears to be confined to the Camargue, the 

 marshes of the lower Loire, where it is common, and probably the 

 Garonne. In Holland it is commoner than is generally supposed, breeding 

 in the reed beds of the Maas, on the Naarder Meer and in the v/ilder 

 parts of Friesland. In W. Germany its presence in the Rhine Province 

 was only recognized in 1904. In Austro - Hungary it breeds in Galizia 

 and is very common in some of the marshes of the great Hungarian plain, 

 and also nests in Croatia, Slavonia and Traussylvania. In Russia it is 

 confined to the central and southern districts, from Poland E. to Oren- 

 burg and the mouth of the Volga, where it is common, and S. to Odessa, 

 but apparently not the Caucasus. In the Balkan states it is not un- 



* It may possibly have revisited Norfolk in recent years, but at present there 

 is not enough evidence to warrant more than this suggestion. 



