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Fig. pi. 52. Frohawk, Br. Birds, I, pi. II, fig. 63. Cat. Eggs. Br. Mus., 

 IV, pi. VIII, fig. 21 (var.). Dresser, pi. — , fig. 25—30. Howard, Brit. 

 Warblers, pi. II, fig. 7—18. 



British Local Names: Reeler, Cricket Bird. AVelsh: Y. Troellwr 

 bach. Foreign Names: Bohemia: Rdliosnik zeleny. Denmark: Bufik- 

 sanger. France: Becfin locustelle. Germany: Heuschreckensanger. Holland: 

 Sprinkhaan-RieUanger. Hungary: Reti tiicsokmaddr. Italy: Forapaglie 

 macchiettato. Poland: Trziniak swierszczyk. Russia: Swertschok. Sweden: 

 Or dshoppsdnga re. 



Acrocephalus 7iaevius (Bodd.). Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 384. Locustella 

 naevia (Bodd.). Dresser, B. of Europe, II, p. 611 and Man. Pal. Birds, 

 p. 131. Saunders, Man. p. 89. L. naevia naevia (Bodd.). Hartert, 

 Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 551. 



Breeding Range: The British Isles, and Continental Europe, south 



of the Baltic and about lat. 62" in Russia, but absent from S. Spain, 



S. Italy, and the Balkan Peninsula, and replaced by the Eastern race in 



S. E. Russia. 



British rjij^g uumbcrs of this species in a district vary considerably from 



leleg. 



year to year, and while in one season it may be almost plentiful, next 

 year perhaps not a single pair will be found. It is moreover every- 

 where local, partly no doubt owing to the necessity of suitable breeding 

 sites. It is fairly though irregularly distributed throughout England and 

 Wales, but is scarce in Cornwall, and is perhaps most numerous in the 

 valleys of Durham and S. Northumberland, on the Solway littoral, and 

 in the Broad district. It is by no means confined to the low ground, 

 but also haunts the heather covered slopes of the Pennines, and the 

 Welsh hills up to about 1500 ft. It is found also in Anglesey, and in 

 the Isle of Man. In Scotland it is found sporadically over the counties 

 S. of the Firths of Forth and Clyde, but only sparingly further N., 

 although it has been recognized not only in N. Argyll, but as far as 

 Arisaig on the W. coast, in the Moray district, on the Upper Forth 

 and in the Tay area. In Ireland it is more general, and is locally common, 

 except on the western seaboard. 

 Con- In the Iberian peninsula although occurring on passage in some 



Europe, numbcrs and probably wintering in the S., there is no reason to believe 

 that it breeds S. of the Cantabrian range. Northward of this it is not 

 uncommon and is found in suitable districts in most parts of France, 

 more especially in the N. W. Though scarce in Belgium, it is found 

 in Holland near the coast as well as in Brabant, and may be met with 

 locally throughout the great plain of central Europe. In Denmark it 

 only breeds in the S., and has been obtained in Scandinavia only in 

 Jaedderen and near Kristiania. Eastward it is found in the Baltic 



