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use. Since that time, three examples of this species have 

 been obtained in Norfolk, as I learn from the interesting 

 Fauna of that country recently published by the Rev. 

 Richard Lubbock, and others have been taken. 



Mr. George R. Gray mentions "that this is a rare 

 species in the South of Europe, and was first noticed by 

 Savi in the Nuovo Giornale de Letterai, No. XIV. 1824; 

 again in his Ornithologia Toscana, torn. i. p. 270, under 

 the name of Sylvia luscino'ides, and is also figured by Sa- 

 vigny in his Description de 1'Egypt, PI. 13, f. 3." It 

 appears to have been noticed by M. Temminck in 1835 ; 

 it is figured by Pollidore Roux, in his Birds of Provence, 

 and by Mr. Gould in his Birds of Europe. Savi's Warbler 

 has been taken in Malta and in Sicily. 



This neat little Warbler belongs, like the Sedge and 

 Reed Warblers, to that small group which frequent 

 moist and shaded situations, among reeds and bushes near 

 water. M. Savi says that it arrives in Tuscany about 

 the middle of April, that it conceals itself among willows 

 and shrubs, creeping about among the low branches, and 

 feeds on worms and insects. The egg is figured by Mr. 

 Hewitson and Thienemann. 



The beak is brown ; the head, neck above, back 

 wings, and tail-feathers reddish-brown ; the latter indis- 

 tinctly barred across with narrow darker bands ; chin and 

 throat almost white ; front of neck and breast pale brown ; 

 under parts of the body rather darker, but lighter in 

 colour than the upper surface of the body ; legs and toes 

 pale brown. 



The whole length of the bird five inches and a half; the 

 wing, from the anterior bend, two inches and a half. This 

 bird resembles the Reed Warbler, and was at first mis- 

 taken for it ; the plumage is, however, more like that of 

 the Nightingale. 



