518 GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. Class II. 



wings dusky, edged with pale brown ; the quil 

 feathers dusky; the tail brown, cuneiform, form- 

 ing a circle when spread ; the legs dusky. 



It is a most entertaining polyglot, or mock- 

 ing bird ; sitting concealed in willows or reeds, 

 in a pleasing but rather hurrying manner, it imi- 

 tates the swallow, the sky-lark, the house-spar- 

 row, &c. sings all night, and seems to leave us 

 before winter. Makes its nest with straw and 

 dried fibres, lined with hair; lays five eggs, 

 white marbled with brown. 



13. Grass- Sylvia Locustella. S. fusco-viri- * Fauvette tachetee. PI. Enl. 



hopper. dis macu ijs nigricantibus 581. f. 3. 



subtus flavescens, pectore Tit-lark, that sings like a 



saturatiore, Cauda cuneata Grasshopper. IVil. orn. 207- 



rectricibus apiee mucrona- Rail Syn. av. 70. 



tis. Lath. Ind. orn. 515. id. Ray's Letters, 108. 



Syn.iv.42Q.id. Sup. ii.240. Br. Zool. 95. plate Q. f. 5. 



Alauda minima locusts voce. Arct. Zool. ii. 116. 

 Locustella, D. Johnson. . 



JL HIS bird we received out of Shropshire : it 

 is the same with that Mr. Bay describes as hav- 



* This has been considered by recent ornithologists as La Lo- 

 custelle of de Buffon, but his description of that bird corresponds 

 with the Sedge Warbler, and is in fact merely a translation from 

 the British Zoology to which he refers- Mr. Montagu,, in the 

 Ornithological Dictionary, gives a reference in this instance as 

 he does in that of the Pipit Lark to the Alauda trivialis of Lin- 

 nceus, but it seems evident that neither the illustrious Swede or 

 his editor, G?iieUn were acquainted with the species. Ed. 



