518 GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. Class II. 



^vings dusky, edged with pale brown; the quil 

 feathers dusky; the tail brown, cuneiform, form- 

 ing a circle when spread ; the legs dusky. 



It is a most entertaining polyglot, or mock- 

 ing bird ; sitting concealed in willows or reeds, 

 in a pleasing but rather hurrying manner, it imi- 

 tates the swallow, the sky-lark, the house-spar- 

 row, &c. sings all night, and seems to leave ns 

 before winter. Makes its nest with straw and 

 dried fibres, lined with hair; lays five eggs, 

 white marbled with brovtn. 



13. Grass- Sylvia Locustella. S. fusco-viri- " Fauvctte tachetee. PL Enl, 

 ^ ' (lis niaculis nigricantlbus 581. f. 3, 



subtus flavescens, pectore Tit-lark, that sings like a 

 saturatiore, caucla cuneata Grasshopper. JVil. orn. 207- 



rectricibus apice mucrona- Jiaii Syn. av. 70. 



tis. Lath. Ind. orn. 515. id. Ray's Letters, 108. 



Syn. iv.42Q. id. Sup. 11.240. Br. Zool. g5. plate O. f, 5. 

 Alauda minima locusts' voce. Arct. Zool. ii. Il6. 



Locustella, D. Jolinson. 



X HIS bird we received out of Shropshire : it 

 is the same with that ]\Ir. Ray describes as hav- 



* This has been considered by recent ornithologists as La Zo- 

 cus telle of de Bujfon, but his description of that bird corresponds 

 with the Sedge Warbler, and is in fact merely a translation from 

 the British Zoology to Avhich he refers. Mr. Montagu, in the 

 Ornithological Dictionary, gives a reference in this instance as- 

 "he does in that of the Pipit Lark to the Alauda irivialis oi Lin- 

 71WUS, but it seems evident that neither the illustrious Swede ot 

 Ills editor Ctnelin were acquainted with the species. Ed. 



