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Walden, and were obligingly devoted for a time to my 

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

 been obtained in Norfolk, as I learn from the interesting 

 Fauna of that county recently published by the Rev. 

 Richard Lubbock. 



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 ' Ornitologia Toscana, torn. i. p. 270,' under 

 the name of Sylvia luscinoides, and is also figured by Sa- 

 vigny in his 'Description de FEgypt, 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 nest and eggs are probably unknown. 



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

 and tail-feathers reddish-brown ; the latter indistinctly 

 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, like that of the 

 Nightingale. 



