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Sibilatrix locustella, Macy. ii. p. 399. 



Salicaria locustella, Hewitson, p. 112; Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 285 ; 



id. ed. 3j i. p. 295 ; Hurting, p. 14. 

 Calamodyta locustella, Gray, p. 42. 

 Acrocephalus nsevius, Newton, i. p. 384. 

 Locustella avicula, Gould, ii. pi. 78. 

 Locustella nsevia, Dresser, ii. p. 611. 

 Grasshopper Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 261. 

 NcBma = that has a mole (titevus) on its body ; hence, spotted. 



This Warbler breeds in temperate Europe, including the 

 British Islands. Winters in North Africa and occasionally 

 in South Europe. 



Locustella luscinioides. Savi's Waebler. 



Sylvia luscinioides, Savi, Nuova Giornale de' Lit- 

 ter ati, vii. p. 341 (1824). 

 Sylvia (Salicaria) luscinioides, Naum. xiii. p. 474. 

 Sylvia (Calamoherpe) luscinioides, Naum. xiii. p. 87. 

 Salicaria luscinoides, Hewitson, p. 115 ; Harting, p. 15. 

 Calamodyta luscinoides. Gray, p. 44. 



Salicaria luscinoides, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 293 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 307. 

 Locustella luscinioides, Dresser, ii. p. 627. 

 Acrocephalus luscinioides, Newton, i. p. 389. 

 Lusciniopsis luscinioides, Gould, ii. pi. 77. 

 Savi's Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 268*. 



Luscinioides, a hybrid word from iMScinia = a Nightingale, and elSos = form, 

 nature. 



A very rare summer visitor to England : found in temperate 

 Europe and as far east as Palestine, also in North Africa. 



[Genus CETTIA, Bonaparte, Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Am. 

 p. 11 (1838). 



Cettia, in honour of the Jesuit Francois Cetti, born at Como in 1726, professor 

 of philosophy at Sassari, where he died about 1780 ; he published a history of 

 the Sardinian vertebrata, 1774-1777. 



