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SAV’S WARBLER. 
Sylvia luscinoides, GOULD. 
Salicaria luscinoides, - YARRELL 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. 
Luscinoides. Luscinia—A Nightingale. Eidos—The form, figure, or 
likeness of any thing. 
Tus species, named after Professor Savi, who first noticed 
it, belongs to the south of Europe, occurring in Italy. and 
France. It also is found in Africa, in Egypt. 
One of these birds was procured many years ago, by the 
Rev. James Brown, in the marshes near Norwich, and was 
duly recorded by the Rev. R. Sheppard and the Rev. W. 
Whitear, in their ‘Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, 
with remarks,’ and the account published in the ‘Transactions 
of the Linnean Society, 1825. Others were procured in 
Cambridgeshire, in the Fens, in the spring of 1840, by Mr. 
J. Baker, a notice of which was published in the ‘Annals 
of Natural History, volume vi, page 155; and a pair 
subsequently by Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Saffron Walden. I 
am, however, informed by Mr. Bird, that, according to Mr. 
Frederic Bond, who has also given me the same account 
himself, these Warblers are quite common in Cambridgeshire 
fens, where they breed regularly every year, as also in “Hunt- 
ingdonshire; the latter gentleman has also procured the nests 
from Backsbite, in the “parish of Milton, near Cambridge— 
the ‘Alma Mater’ of more than one race. Wicken Fen, near 
Ely, is another locality, as S. R. Little, Esq., of St. John’s 
College, Cambridge, writes me word. A pair were also 
procured, as stated in the ‘Account of the Birds found in 
Norfolk, by William Richard Fisher, and John Henry Gurney, 
Ksqrs.,’ at South Walsham, in the summer of 1843. 
This species is of shy habits, rapidly descending, on alarm, 
into the reeds, 
