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GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 



CEICKET BIED. 



SyJvia locustella, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Curruca locustella, FLEMING. 



Salicaria locustella, SELBY. 



Locustella avicula, GOULD. RAY. 



Sylvia. SylvaA. wood. Locustella A. diminutive of Locvsta, a Locust. 



OF the European continent this species is found in the 

 southern and central parts Italy, France, Germany, Holland, 

 and Switzerland, as also in Sweden and Denmark, and the 

 south of Russia and Siberia. In Holland it is said to be 

 rare. 



In Yorkshire the Grasshopper Warbler is abundant in the 

 neighbourhood of Huddersfield, as Peter Inchbald, Esq., of 

 Storthes Hall, informs me; as also in several other parts, and 

 has been met with near Askern, and at Scarborough, in the 

 garden of Dr. Murray, and in Raincliff Wood near that town, 

 as communicated to the 'Naturalist,' old series, by Mr. Patrick 

 Hawkridge, in volume ii., p. 335. One was shot near 

 Barnsley, by Dr. Farrar; at Hebden Bridge it is met with 

 rarely; it is frequent about Sheffield, but rather rare near 

 Leeds. Near Halifax a few pairs breed every summer, and 

 others in several localities near Doncaster, as at Wads worth, 

 Hutmoor, and Rossington; a few also near Bridlington; and 

 at Buttercrambe Wood, and at Langwith. It is not uncommon 

 in the county of Rutland, in the neighbourhood of Uppingham, 

 so R. W. Hawkins, Esq., of Rugeley, and also J. R. Little, 

 Esq., of St. John's College, Cambridge, have written me word; 

 and the latter gentleman adds that it has been found very 

 frequently of late years in Cambridgeshire. In Sussex it has 

 been noticed near Eastbourne; in Surrey, near Tooting; and 

 in Middlesex, a few miles from London; also in Hampshire, 



