S'iO BRITISH BIRDS. 



LOCUSTELLA LOCUSTELLA. 

 GRASSHOPPER WARBLER, 



(Plate 10.) 



Ficedula curruca grisea usevia, Biiss. Orn. vi. Sii.ppl. p. Ill' (1700). 



Motacilla nsevia, Bodcl. Tohh- PI. E,tl. p. 35. no. 581 (1783). 



S^-lvia loeustella, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. .jlo (1700) ; et auctorum plurimorum — 

 (Koch), Tl'olf, Vieilht, Tciiiminck, Meij('i-,jS^aumann, Jenijns, Nordmann, (Schlegel), 

 [Gray), Sundecall, (Brehin), (Keyserling), (Blasius), (Fhming), (Thompson), 

 (Hayiiny), Macyillicruy , &c. 



Muscipeta loeustella (Lath.), Kocli, Syst. baier. Zuul. i. p. 166 (181(j). 



Muscipeta dlivacea, Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. llJ7 (1816). 



Calamoherpe loeustella (Lath.), Bute, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 



OuiTuea loeustella (Lath.), Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 213 (1825). 



Loeustella loeustella (Lath.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 115 (1829). 



Oalamohei'pe tenuirostris, Brehm, Vog. Deutscld. p. 440 (1831). 



Saliearia loeustella (Lath.), Selby, Brit. Orn. p. 199 (1833). 



Loeustella sibilans, Gould, B. Eur. letterpress to pi. 102 (1837). 



Loeustella avieula, B.ay,fide Gould, B. Eur. pi. 103 (1837). 



Loeustella rayi, Gould, fide Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. S( N. Amer. p. 12 (1838). 



Sibilatrix loeustella (Lath.), Mucgill. Br. B. ii. p. 399 (1839). 



Psithyroedus loeustella (Lath.), Gloger, Gem. Ilandb. Naturg. p. 298 (1842). 



Loeustella njevia (Bodcl), Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 589 (1849). 



Loeustella duuietieok, Blyth, White's Selborne, p. 119 (1850). 



Parnopia loeufitella (Lath.), i\>(r<. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 11 (1862). 



Calamodyta loeustella (Lath.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 210. no. 2972 (1869). 



Aei-ocephalus iisevius (Bodd.), Newton, erf. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 384 (1873). 



Threnetria loeustella (Lath.), Schauer, Juurn. Orn. 1873, p. 183. 



The Grasshopper Warbler appears to have been first described by 

 Willughby and Ray in their ' Ornithologia ' in 1676, under the heading 

 of Loeustella avieula, from information supplied to them by a Mr. D. 

 Johnson, of Brignal, near Greta Bridge, in Yorkshire, possibly the father 

 of Mr. Ralpli Johnson, to whom Ray, in his preface, acknowledges that 

 he and Willughby were indebted for much information respecting British 

 birds. They make mention of the spotted back, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts, and of the very rounded tail, which, together with their allusions 

 to its grasshopper-like note*, leaves no room for doubt that Pennant was 

 perfectly correct in identifying Willughby and Ray's bird with one which 



* Mr. Johnson's letter to Ray is dated 1072, and the habits of the bird described re- 

 semble mo.st those of the Wood- Wren ; but the bird sent to Ray, if correetly described, is 

 certainly not that species, but the Grasshopper Warbler. Possibly Mr. Johnson confounded 

 the two notes tog-ether. 



