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the woodlark and the pied wagtail, the eggs of the 
latter being sold by dealers to represent the eggs of 
Savi’s Warbler. Mr. John Hancock tells me that a 
second nest and eggs of this species, together with the 
birds, which were also obtained in the fens of Cambridge, 
and which agree exactly with those sent me by Mr. 
Bond, are in the collection of Mr. Robson, of Swalwell, 
near Newcastle. 
Mr. W. H. Simpson, in a letter to a friend, says:— 
“ The last time I saw Savi’s Warbler was in Burwell 
fen (now drained), in the month of May, 1849. At 
that time I saw several, and searched most carefully 
for their nests, but it was too early. In the same month 
of the same year a Savi’s Warbler’s nest was taken in 
the fen, not far from Whittlesea Mere, by a man I em¬ 
ployed at that time. It was placed low down amongst 
the sedge, and there were two eggs in it. This fen is 
now, or shortly will be, a corn-field.” 
Mr. Green, a dealer in birds’ eggs, mentions having 
taken a nest of Savi’s Warbler at Dagenham, on the 
14th of May ; the nest was built solely of reeds, and 
exactly resembled that figured in the “ Zoologist.” It 
contained five eggs. 
Savi’s Warbler is apparently a rare bird throughout 
the Continent, and was probably at one time—before the 
diaining of our fens as abundant here as in any other 
part of Europe. 
