ON SAYI'S WARBLER. 



By Count CASIMIR WODZICKI. 



['Journal fiir Ornithologie,' 1. Jahrgang, 1853^ Extraheft, in a paper by Count Casimir Wodzicki, 

 with the title " N. 7. Einige Beobachtungen iiber die drei schwirrenden Rohrsanger : Salicaria 

 locustella, fluviatilis, und Calamoherpe luscinioides" (as continuation of the article by Dr. 

 LudvT. Thienemann, in the second part of the Journal 'Rhea/ 1848, p. 216), page 48.] 



3. CALAMOHERPE LUSCINIOIDES (Savi). 



All the upper parts rusty brown ; underparts tinged with rusty yellowish 

 colour, darker on the flanks as well as on the lower tail-coverts. Bill rather 

 slender, compressed ; above the eyes there is an indication of a light fine 

 stripe. Length of the bird from 5" 6'" to 6" 2'", most individuals about 

 5" 9'", the breadth 9". The birds are smaller and more slender than Salicaria 

 fluviatilis ; the tail is less broad ; upper mandible brownish black, under 

 mandible yellowish ; the tarsi are of a fleshy colour, as well as the mouth ; 

 eyes dark brown ; on the tail are some darker stripes. Most of the males offer 

 indistinct spots on the throat, of a darker colour than that of the breast ; but 

 this is no characteristic. 



Calamoherpe luscinioides is a true bird of the reeds (which it never 

 leaves), quarrelsome, always in motion — now on the ground, now on the 



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