. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. SYLVIIN^. 91. SAVI'S WARBLER. LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIofoES (Savi). As remarked by Professor Newton, in the best account extant of Savi's Warbler (Yarrell's British Birds, 4th Ed., i. p. 389), there can be little doubt that this bird was a regular (though never a very abundant) summer-visitant to England, until the drainage of the fens and meres of the Eastern Counties unfitted large districts for its habitation. The first example ever brought to the notice of naturalists—still at the Norwich Museum—was shot in Norfolk during the month of May, in the
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. SYLVIIN^. 91. SAVI'S WARBLER. LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIofoES (Savi). As remarked by Professor Newton, in the best account extant of Savi's Warbler (Yarrell's British Birds, 4th Ed., i. p. 389), there can be little doubt that this bird was a regular (though never a very abundant) summer-visitant to England, until the drainage of the fens and meres of the Eastern Counties unfitted large districts for its habitation. The first example ever brought to the notice of naturalists—still at the Norwich Museum—was shot in Norfolk during the month of May, in the early part of this century; but having been submitted to Temminck it was pronounced by him to be a variety of the Reed-Warbler; while some subsequent confusion in his mind was, doubtless, the cause of his wholly erroneous state- ment that Cetti's Warbler (a very different species, with only ten tail- feathers) had been killed in England. Not until 1824 was the specific distinctness of Savi's Warbler recognized by the Italian ornithologist after whom it is named. In after years about six examples of the bird, and one or two of its nests, were taken in Norfolk; while in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire a larger number of both were obtained in fens which are, at the present day, with two exceptions, completely drained. The last British specimen was obtained at Surlingham, Norfolk, in June 1856 ; and none are known to be in existence except those from the Eastern Counties,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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