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LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIOIDES. 



(SAVrS WARBLER.) 



Sylvia luscinioides, Savi, Nuovo Giornale de' Letterati, vii. p. 341 (1824). 



Pseudo-luscinia savii, Bp. Comp. List, p. 12 (1838). 



Salicaria luscinioides (Savi), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. liii (1840). 



Lusciniopsis savii, Bp. Ucc. Eur. p. 36. no. 153 (1842). 



Calamodyta luscinioides (Savi), G. E. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 172 (1844-49). 



Cettia luscinioides (Savi), Z. Gerbe, Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 240 (1848). 



Locustella luscinioides (Savi), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 234 (1855). 



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



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



Lusciniopsis luscinioides rufescens, A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samml. C. L. Brehm, p. 6 (1866). 



Lusciniopsis luscinioides macrorhynchos, A. E. Brehm, ut supra (1866). 



Lusciniopsis luscinioides brachyrhyncJios, A. E. Brehm, ut supra (1866). 



Calamodyta (Lusciniopsis) luscinioides (Savi), Fritsch, Vog. Eur. p. 160, pi. 18. fig. 3 (1870). 



Fauvette des Sanies, French ; Salciajola, Italian ; Pagliarol, Modenese ; Naclitigall-Bolir- 

 sdnger, Weidenrohrsanger, German ; Nachtegaal-Bietzanger, Dutch. 



Figures notabiles. 



Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 104; id. B. of G. B. ii. pi. 77; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 211 bis; Fritsch. 

 I. c. ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 81 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 370. figs. 4, 5. 



Ad. capite et corpore supra cum alis et cauda rufescenti-brunneis vix olivaceo tinctis, pileo saturatiore, et 

 uropygio vix pallidiore : cauda, indistincte transfasciata : gula et abdomiue centrali albidisT corppje 

 reliquo subtus pallide rufescenti-cervino, hypochondriis et subcaudalibus elongatis pallide rufescenti- 

 brunneis : rostro brunneo, mandibula pallidiore : pedibus pallide brunneis : iride fusca. 



Juv. adulto simdis, sed corpore supra grisescentiore et minus rufescente, corpore subtus albidiore. 



Adult (Whittlesea Mere). Entire upper surface of the body, wings, and tail reddish brown, with a faint 

 olive tinge ; the head being rather darker, and the rump rather lighter than the rest of the upper parts ; 

 tail marked with obsolete bars so faintly that they can only be discerned by holding it in certain lights ; 

 throat and centre of the abdomen white, rest of the underparts pale rufescent-buff ; the flanks and 

 under tail-coverts (which latter are very long) darker, being pale reddish brown; bill brown, lower 

 mandible lighter; iris dark brown; legs pale brown. Total length about 5 - 5 inches, culmen 6, 

 gape 062, wing 2"7, tad 2'5, tarsus 09 ; first primary very short, fully 015 less the primary coverts, 

 and 1*65 less than the second, which is the longest; second and third quills much curved. 



Nestling (Andalucia, Spain). Resembles the adult bird; but the upper surface of the body is greyer and 

 not so rufous, and the underparts are much whiter. 



