WARBLERS. 15 



SAVI'S 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 pliragmitis), 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 (Linnaeus). 



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- 



