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GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 
CRICKET BIRD. 
Sylvia locustella, Pennant. Montacu. Bewick. 
Curruca locustella, FLEMING. 
Salicaria locustella, SELBY. 
Locustella avicula, GouLp. Ray. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood.  Locustella—A diminutive of Locusta, a Locust. 
On the European continent this species is found in the 
southern and central parts—Italy, France, Germany, Holland, 
and Switzerland, as also in Sweden and Denmark, and the 
south of Russia and Siberia. In Holland it is said to be 
rare. 
In Yorkshire the Grasshopper Warbler is abundant in the 
neighbourhood of Huddersfield, as Peter Inchbald, Esq., of 
Storthes Hall, informs me; as also in several other parts, and 
has been met with near Askern, and at Scarborough, in the 
garden of Dr. Murray, and in Raincliff Wood near that town, 
as communicated to the ‘Naturalist,’ old series, by Mr. Patrick 
Hawkridge, in volume ii., p. 3885. One was shot near 
Barnsley, by Dr. Farrar; at Hebden Bridge it is met with 
rarely; it is frequent about Sheffield, but rather rare near 
Leeds. Near Halifax a few pairs breed every summer, and 
others in several localities near Doncaster, as at Wadsworth, 
Hutmoor, and Rossington; a few also near Bridlington; and 
at Buttercrambe Wood, and at Langwith. It is not uncommon 
in the county of Rutland, in the neighbourhood of Uppingham, 
so R. W. Hawkins, Esq., of Rugeley, and also J. R. Little, 
- Hsq., of St. John’s College, Cambridge, have written me word; 
and the latter gentleman adds that it has been found very 
frequently of late years in Cambridgeshire. In Sussex it has 
been noticed near Eastbourne; in Surrey, near Tooting; and 
in Middlesex, a few miles from London; also in Hampshire, 
