88 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



its geographical distribution has not been yet 

 clearly defined. It is observed in Southern 

 Europe at the periods of migration, and we may 

 therefore presume that it accompanies its con- 

 geners and other small summer migrants to 

 North Africa, Asia Minor, and Palestine. 



SAVI'S WARBLER. 

 (Salicaria luscinoides.) 



T3 EFORE the fens were drained, it is said 

 *-^ that the rarer species, Savi's Warbler, 

 was not uncommon in the eastern counties of 

 England. The fen-men used to distinguish it 

 from the Grasshopper Warbler by its note, call- 

 ing the commoner species " the reeler," the 

 other " the night reeler/' from the resemblance 

 of its note to the whirr of the reel used by the 

 wool-spinners. In Norfolk, according to Mr. 

 Stevenson, it appears to have been known to 

 the marsh-men as " the red craking reed-wren." 

 The fens of Baitsbight, Burwell, and Whittlesea 



