SYLVIADJS. 61 



SAVI'S WARBLER. Salicaria luscinoides. This Warbler 

 frequents moist and shaded situations, among reeds and 

 bushes near water. Though a rare bird throughout the 

 European continent, it has been known to breed, on more 

 than one occasion, in the fens of Cambridgeshire. The nest 

 is described by Mr. Hewitson as " beautifully symmetrical 

 and round, and built entirely of the broad grassy top of the 

 reed," and "placed in a thick bunch of sedge upon the 

 ground." The eggs are minutely specked over their entire 

 surface with pale-red and light-grey, and bear some distant 

 resemblance to those of the Grasshopper Warbler. 



THE GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. Salicaria locustella. 

 This little bird conceals itself in tangled thickets and among 

 the rank herbage of retired situations, from whence it utters 

 its strain of rapidly-repeated notes, resembling the noise of 

 a grasshopper ; it has been suggested that it does this partly 

 with a design to attract those insects within its power. The 

 nest, not easily discovered, is placed among the roots of low 

 close bushes, or sometimes a little raised from the ground, 

 and is composed of a large quantity of grass loosely put to- 

 gether. The eggs, generally five or six in number, are of 

 a pale reddish-white, freckled all over with specks of darker 

 red. 



