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SAVI'S WARBLER. 



Sylvia luscinoides, GOULD. 



Salicaria luscinoides, YABRELL. 



Sylvia. SylvaA. wood. 



Luscinoides. Luscinia A Nightingale. Eidos The form, figure, or 

 likeness of any thing. 



THIS species, named after Professor Savi, who first noticed 

 it, belongs to the south of Europe, occurring in Italy and 

 France. It also is found in Africa, in Egypt. 



One of these birds was procured many years ago, by the 

 Rev. James Brown, in the marshes near Norwich, and was 

 duly recorded by the Rev. R. Sheppard and the Rev. W. 

 Whitear, in their 'Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, 

 with remarks,' and the account published in the 'Transactions 

 of the Linnaean Society,' 1825. Others were procured in 

 Cambridgeshire, in the fens, in the spring of 1840, by Mr. 

 J. Baker, a notice of which was published in the 'Annals 

 of Natural History,' volume vi., page 155; and a pair 

 subsequently by Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Saffron Walden. I 

 am, however, informed by Mr. Bird that, according to Mr. 

 Frederic Bond, who has also given me the same account 

 himself, these Warblers are quite common in Cambridgeshire 

 fens, where they breed regularly every year, as also in Hunt- 

 ingdonshire; the latter gentleman has also procured the nests 

 from Backsbite, in the parish of Milton, near Cambridge 

 the 'Alma Mater' of more than one race. Wicken Fen, near 

 Ely, is another locality, as S. R. Little, Esq., of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, writes me word. A pair were also 

 procured, as stated in the 'Account of the Birds found in 

 Norfolk, by William Richard Fisher, and John Henry Gurney, 

 Esqrs.,' at South Walsham, in the summer of 1843. 



This species is of shy habits, rapidly descending, on alarm, 

 into the reeds. 



