SAVINS WARBLER. 
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INSESSORES. 
SYLVIA DjE. 
SAVl’S WARBLER. 
Salicaria luscinoides. 
PLATE XXXI. FIG. II. 
This is one of the several birds that the spreading 
taste for Ornithology—which received its first impulse 
from the beautiful works of Bewick—and the discrimi¬ 
nation of its votaries, have of late years added to the 
fauna of this country. Like the other species which it 
closely resembles in habits and appearance, it frequents 
districts which are covered with marsh and difficult of 
access, creeping about and hiding itself mouse-like 
amongst the low brushwood. 
Several specimens of this species have been discovered 
in the fens of Cambridgeshire, some of which are in the 
British Museum. 
Mr. Bond, to whose kindness I am indebted for the 
pleasure of figuring this rare egg, received it—together 
with the nest, which contained three eggs, and from 
which the bird was shot — from the fens a few miles 
from Cambridge. The nest, which is beautifully sym¬ 
metrical and round, and built entirely of the broad grassy 
top of the reed, was placed in a thick bunch of sedge 
upon the ground. 
The eggs are considerably larger than those of the 
grasshopper warbler,—and one of them is a good deal 
larger than that which I have figured,—and bear some 
resemblance to them, but are much more like those of 
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