WARBLERS. 
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upper-parts uniformly dark olive-brown with a scarcely perceptible eyestripe, the 
under-parts being greyish brown, shading into white on the throat and belly. 
Savi’s Warbler O ne of the rarer and more interesting of European warblers is 
the little obscurely coloured bird known as Savi’s warbler ( L. 
luscinoides), which nests in Holland, building a nest of blades of dry sedge firmly 
interwoven, which cannot well be mistaken for that of any other bird. The eggs 
are white, sprinkled with ashy brown spots. In the Rhone marshes this bird may 
be observed actively running up and down the reeds, occasionally uttering a curious 
cry which has been compared to that of a tree-frog. The male has the upper-parts 
uniform russet-brown, and the under-parts are pale huffish brown, shading into 
nearly white on the centre of the throat and belly. 
SEDGE-WARBLER, CETTl’s WARBLER, AND FAN-TAIL WARBLER Hat. size). 
Cettian Cetti’s warbler (Bradypterus cettii ) may be taken as the best 
warblers. known European representative of another large group of genera 
differing from all the foregoing in having only ten (in place of twelve) tail- 
feathers. As the number of these genera is far too large to be even mentioned 
here, it will suffice to say that Cetti’s warbler holds a high position among the 
song-birds of Southern Europe, and that it passes the summer in the Mediterranean 
region, inhabiting close and impenetrable covert during its summer sojourn. It 
builds its nest of dry stems and blades of grass in the neighbourhood of water. 
The eggs are brilliant red, and without any spots. In some parts of its range 
