340 BRITISH BIRDS. 



LOCUSTELLA LOCUSTELLA. 

 GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 



(PLATE 10.) 



Ficedula curruca grisea use via, Briss. Orn. vi. Suppl. p. 112 (1760). 



Motacilla nsevia, Sodd. Table PL Enl p. 35. no. 581 (1783). 



Sylvia locustella, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 515 (1790) ; et auctorum plurimorum 

 (Koch), Wolf) Vieillot, Temminck, Meyer, Xaumann, Jenyns, Nordmann, (Schlegel), 

 (Gray), Sundevall, (Brehm), (Key ser liny), (Blasius), (Fleming), (Thompson), 

 (Harting), Macyillivray , &c. 



Muscipeta locustella (Lath.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 166 (1816). 



Muscipeta olivacea, Koch, St/st. baier. Zool. i. p. 167 (1816). 



Calamoherpe locustella (Lath.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 



Ourruca locustella (Lath.), Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 213 (1825). 



Locustella locustella (Lath.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 115 (1829). 



Calamoherpe tenuirostris, Brehm, Vog. DeutscM. p. 440 (1831). 



Salicaria locustella (Lath.), Selby, Brit. Orn. p. 199 (1833). 



Locustella sibilans, Gould, B. Eur. letterpress to pi. 102 (1837). 



Locustella avicula, Ray, fide Gould, B. Eur. pi. 103 (1837). 



Locustella rayi, Gould, fide Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 12 (1838). 



Sibilatrix locustella (Lath.), Macgitt. Br. B. ii. p. 399 (1839). 



Psithyrcedus locustella (Lath.), Gloger, Gem. Handb. Naturg. p. 298 (1842). 



Locustella naevia (Bodd.), Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 589 (1849). 



Locustella durueticola, Blyth, White's Selborne, p. 119 (1850). 



Parnopia locustella (Lath.), Neivt. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 11 (1862). 



Calamodyta locustella (Lath.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 210. uo. 2972 (1869). 



Acrocephalus usevius (Bodd.), Newton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 384 (1873). 



Threnetria locustella (Lath.), Schauer, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 183. 



The Grasshopper Warbler appears to have been first described by 

 Willughby and Ray in their ( Ornithologia ' in 1676, under the heading 

 of Locustella avicula, from information supplied to them by a Mr. D. 

 Johnson, of Brignal, near Greta Bridge, in Yorkshire, possibly the father 

 of Mr. Ralph Johnson, to whom Ray, in his preface, acknowledges that 

 he and Willughby were indebted for much information respecting British 

 birds. They make mention of the spotted back, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts, and of the very rounded tail, which, together with their allusions 

 to its grasshopper-like note*, leaves no room for doubt that Pennant was 

 perfectly correct in identifying Willughby and Ray's bird with one which 



* Mr. Johnson's letter to Ray is dated 1672, and the habits of the bird described re- 

 semble most those of the Wood- Wren ; but the bird sent to Ray, if correctly described, is 

 certainly not that species, but the Grasshopper Warbler. Possibly Mr. Johnson confounded 

 the two notes together. 



