Warbler. INSESSORES. SALIC ARIA. 199 



GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. 



Salicaria Locustella, Mihi. 



PLATE XLV. « • Fig. 1. 



Sylvia Locustella, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 515. sp. 25. 



LocusteUa avicula, Rati Syn. p. 70. A. 7 Will. p. 151. 



L'Alouette locustelle, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 42 Id. PI. EiiL v. 581. f. 3. under 



the title of Fauvette tachetee. 

 Becfin locustelle, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 184. 

 Fleuschrechen-sanger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 230. — Bechst. Na- 



turg. Deut. v. 3. p. 502. sp. 23. 

 Grasshopper Warbler, Ur. Zool. 1. No. 15C Arct. Zool.2. p. 419 Lath. 



Syn. 4. p. 429. t. 20 — Id. Supp. 2. p. 240 — White's Hist. Selb. p. 45 



Levnri's Br. Birdr, 3. t. 98 Mont. Ornith. Diet Id. Supp — Beivick^s 



Supp. to Br. Birds. 

 Titlark that sings Like a grasshopper. Will. (Ang.) p. 207- 



The present species was long subjected to an erroneous Periodical 

 impression, by being considered as of the Laj'k genus, which 

 mal-arrangement with respect to it could only have arisen 

 from the difficulty of procuring specimens. It would other- 

 wise be a subject of wonder, how any one, conversant with 

 this department of zoology, could confound species so dissi- 

 milar in form and habits ; and, under examination, the essen- 

 tial characters widely differ. It is a migratory bird, and is 

 seldom heard, in the northern parts of the kingdom, before 

 the beginning of May ; but in the southern (or rather south- 

 western counties, according to Montagu) as early as the se- 

 cond or third week in April. 



It is far from being abundant, and is very partially distri- 

 buted ; the above author fixing its limits of migration to the 

 counties before mentioned, and to Ireland ; but I have 

 known it, for some years past, as a visitant to several parts 

 of Northumberland, where it haunts low and damp situa- 

 tions, overgrown with furze, bramble, and underwood. It 

 is remarkably shy and timid, and is very seldom seen upon 

 wing, generally remaining shrouded in the middle of the 

 thickest furze, or other entanglement, which it threads with 



