WARBLER. 



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ten days,* they are heard only in the evening, and at this time the 

 note is so like that of a Gryllo-talpa or Mole-Cricket, as scarcely 

 to be distinguished. The nest is made of dried fibres, and clivers, 

 lined with the same, but finer materials; and is of a loose and 

 slovenly texture, though not inelegant ; the egg is about the size 

 of that of the White-throat, not quite so round, of an elegant bluish 

 white, or pale blue : the bird goes away in autumn, but at what par- 

 ticular period does not seem certain. We have noticed this species in 

 various parts of Kent, and Col. Montagu has met with it in Hamp- 

 shire, the South of Wales, and in Ireland ; but no where in greater 

 plenty than on Malmsbury Common, Wiltshire. — Mr. Johnson found 

 this in Yorkshire; for in his letter to Mr. Ray, he says, "I have 

 sent you the little bird you call Regulus non cristatus; we have great 

 store of them each morning about sun-rise, and many times a day ; 

 besides, she mounts the highest branch in the bush, and there with 

 bill erect, and wing hovering, she sends forth a sibilous noise like 

 that of a grasshopper, but much shriller."t On the Continent, it 

 inhabits Sweden ; is common in Siberia, though more scarce in 

 Russia ; to the south, in France, and as far as Italy, but whether 

 reaching farther southward seems uncertain ; is probably not un- 

 common in America; as I met with one very little varying in the 

 collection of General Davies. 



25.— DANUBIAN WARBLER. 



Sylvia fluviatilis, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 183. Meyer, Tassch. Deut. i. 229. 

 Flussanger, Bechst. Dent. i. p. 562. sp. 22. 



LENGTH five inches four lines. Plumage above olive, shaded 

 with brown ; throat white, with numerous longitudinal, olive spots ; 



* I once had two of these birds, male and female, shot on Dartford Brent, as early as 

 the 15th of April, 1790. 



■f This can be no other than the Grasshopper Warbler, as may be imagined from a note 

 on this passage by Dr. Derham. See Ray's Letters, p. 108. The Regulus cristatus is 

 the Yellow Wren, for which Mr. Johnson has mistaken this bird. 



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