90 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



Nightingale ; hence the term luscinoides which 

 has been applied to it. The English name is 

 borrowed from its discoverer, Signor Savi, who 

 found it in Tuscany, and published an account of 

 it in the " Nuovo Giornale di Litteratura," 1824, 

 and in his " Ornithologia Toscana," vol. i. p. 270. 

 The eggs are something like those of the Grass- 

 hopper Warbler, but larger and darker ; the 

 nest is very different, being composed entirely 

 of sedge, so closely woven and interlaced as to 

 remind one of the mat-baskets which are used 

 by fishmongers. Of the geographical distribu- 

 tion of this bird we have yet a good deal to 

 learn. It does not appear to range very far 

 northwards, but is observed annually in summer 

 in Southern Europe, passing by way of Sicily 

 and the Maltese Islands to Egypt. Mr. Salvin 

 found it abundant in the Marsh of Zana, and 

 Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake met with it in Tangier and 

 Eastern Morocco. 



