32 WARBLER. 



La Locustelle, Buf. v. 42. Hist.Prov. i. 359. 



Fauvette tachetee, PI. enl. 581. 3. 



Titlark that sings like a Grasshopper, Will. Engl. 207. 



Grasshopper Warbler, Gen. Syn. iv. 429. Id. Sup. ii. 240. Br. Zool. i. No. 156. 



Id.fol. 95. pi. Q. f. 5. Id. Ed. 1812. i. 518. Collins's Birds, pi. 10. f. 11. & pi. 10. 



f. 9. Arct. Zool. ii. 419. L. White's Selb. p. 45. Shaw's Zool. x. 595. Lewin's 



Birds, iii. t. 98. Orn. Diet. 



SIZE of the Reed Wren ; weight three drachms and twenty-four 

 grains ; length rather more than six inches, breadth of wing seven 

 inches and a half. Bill slender, dusky, the under mandible whitish ; 

 over the eye in the male, an indistinct trace of buff-colour ; plumage 

 on the upper parts somewhat like that of the Sedge Warbler, viz. 

 brown, with dusky markings, but the tail differs in being cuneiform, 

 the two middle feathers full two inches and a half long, and much 

 pointed at the ends, the outer one only one inch and a quarter, and 

 rounded, the intermediate ones decreasing in length and sharpness 

 as they are more outward ; the first quill is shorter than the second ; 

 the under parts of the body are plain dull white, inclining to dusky 

 rufous on the breast ; over the thighs, the vent, and under tail coverts 

 dull white, with a dusky streak down the shafts ; the tail feathers, 

 viewed obliquely, appear to have eleven or twelve undulated bars of 

 a darker hue across them ; but in a full light, this vanishes ; legs 

 one inch long, and yellow. 



One of these, in the collection of Mr. Bullock, had the crown 

 mixed dusky black, with a pale streak down the middle, and the 

 feathers of the back dashed with black. 



The female not unlike the male, but smaller. This species comes 

 to us about the middle of April, and frequents commons for the most 

 part, where it is seen among the bushes and furze, but excessively 

 shy, keeping constantly in the middle of a bush ; like others of the 

 Genus, the males arrive first, and are to be seen on the top of the 

 spray, having a kind of grinding note, and at times a very agreeable 

 kind of warble. As soon as the females arrive, which is a week or 



