SYLVIINE. gr 
SAVI’S WARBLER. 
LocusTELLa LusciniofpEs (Savi). 
As remarked by Professor Newton, in the best account extant of 
Savi’s Warbler (Yarrell’s British Birds, 4th Ed., i. p. 389), there can 
be little doubt that this bird was a regular (though never a very 
abundant) summer-visitant to England, until the drainage of the 
fens and meres of the Eastern Counties unfitted large districts for 
its habitation. The first example ever brought to the notice of 
naturalists—still at the Norwich Museum—was shot in Norfolk 
during the month of May, in the early part of this century ; but 
having been submitted to Temminck it was pronounced by him to 
be a variety of the Reed-Warbler ; while some subsequent confusion 
in his mind was, doubtless, the cause of his wholly erroneous state- 
ment that Ce¢ti’s Warbler (a very different species, with only zez tail- 
feathers) had been killed in England. Not until 1824 was the 
specific distinctness of Savi’s Warbler recognized by the Italian 
ornithologist after whom it is named. In after years about six 
examples of the bird, and one or two of its nests, were taken in 
Norfolk ; while in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire a larger 
number of both were obtained in fens which are, at the present day, 
with two exceptions, completely drained. The last British specimen 
was obtained at Surlingham, Norfolk, in June 1856 ; and none are 
known to be in existence except those from the Eastern Counties, 
