SAVl'S WARBLER. 389 



PASSERES. SYLVIJD^. 



ACROCEPHALUS LUSC1NIOIDES (Savi*). 



SAVl'S WARBLER. 



Salicaria luscino'ides. 



SEVERAL examples of this Warbler have been procured in 

 this country, and there can be little doubt that it was a 

 regular, though never a very abundant summer-visitant to 

 England, until the drainage of the fens and meres of the 

 Eastern Counties wrought so thorough a change in their 

 condition and unfitted large districts for its habitation. The 

 first example of the species known to have been obtained in 

 Britain, and probably in Europe for it was assuredly the 

 first example ever brought to the notice of naturalists, was 

 shot in Norfolk by the late Mr. James Brown of Norwich, 

 about the middle of May in the early part of this century. 

 It is still preserved in the Norwich Museum, and Mr. Steven- 

 son was favoured by Mr. Brown with the information that 



* Sylvia luscinioides, Savi, Nuovo Giornale cle' Letterati, vii. p. 341 (1824). 



