346 BRITISH BIRDS. 



LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIOIDES. 

 SAVI'S WARBLER. 



(Plate 10.) 



Sylvia luscinioides, Savi, Nuom Oiornale dei Letterati, \n. p. .341 (]824) ; et aucto- 

 rum plurimorum — Temminck, (Goald), Nordmayin, {Gray), {Schkgel), {Salca- 

 dori), (Neioton), (JDresser), %c. 



Locustella luscinioides {Savi), Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 104 (1837). 



Pseudoluscinia savii, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. ^- N. Atiier. p. 12 (18.38). 



Salicaria luscinioides (Savi), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. liii, 180 (1840). 



Lusciniopsia savii {Bp.), Bonap. Ucc. Eur. p. 36 (1842). 



Oalamodyta luscinioides {Sari), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848). 



Oettia luscinioides (Savi), L. Gerbe, Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. vi. p. 240 (1848). 



Calamoherpe luscinioides (Savi), Schl. Tog. Nederl. p. 149 (18o4). 



Lusciniola savii (Bp.), Bonap. Cat. Parzud. p. 6 (1856). 



Locustella savii (Bp.), Salvia, Ibis, 1859, p. 356. 



Lusciniopsis luscinioides (Savi), Newt. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 1 1 ( 1862). 



Pseudoluscinia luscinioides (Sari), Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 89 (1>^72). 



Acrocephalus luscinioides (Savi), Newton ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 389 (1873). 



Cettia fusca, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 181 (1873). 



Sylvia (Threnetria) luscinioides (Savi), Scliatier, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 161. 



Threnetria acheta, Schauer, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 183. 



Potamodus luscinioides (Savi), Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 199 (1876). 



Savins Warbler has every claim to be included in a work on British 

 Birds, though it is in all probability extinct in our islands. The marshes 

 where it formerly bred have been to a great extent drained ; and nothing 

 has been seen of this interesting bird in its old localities during the last 

 five-and-twenty years. So far as is known, the first Savi's Warbler ever 

 obtained was shot ten miles south-east of Norwich, about the year 1819. 

 Temminck pronounced the bird to be a variety of the Reed-Warbler^ and 

 afterwards seems to have confounded it with Cetti's Warbler. Savi did 

 not describe the species until five years later ; and it cannot be said to 

 have become generally known until Temminck published his Manual of 

 Ornithology in 1835. Many examples of Savi's Warbler, as well as nests 

 and eggs of this bird, were obtained at various dates from 1843 to 1856 in 

 the fens of Norfolk and Cambridge and in one or two other adjoining 

 counties. It is not known that Savi's Warbler has occurred in any other 

 district in the British Isles. 



On the continent the distribution of this species is also somewhat 

 restricted, though in many localities it is a common bird. It is never 

 found except in reed-beds ; but in most places where these occur of suffi- 

 cient size, in Spain, the south of France, Holland, Italy, Austria, and 



