. A history of British birds . egs, toes and claws, pale yellowish-brown. The whole length five inches and a half. The wingsshort and curved: from the carpal joint to the end of thelongest primary, two inches and three-eighths; the secondprimary longer than the fifth, but not so long as the fourth;the third the longest in the wing. This species, as beforestated, has no bristles at the gape. Females do not differ much from males on the upper parts ofthe body; but are said to want the brown spots on the species was, in 1829, made by Dr. Kaup the type ofhis genus Locustella, and besid
. A history of British birds . egs, toes and claws, pale yellowish-brown. The whole length five inches and a half. The wingsshort and curved: from the carpal joint to the end of thelongest primary, two inches and three-eighths; the secondprimary longer than the fifth, but not so long as the fourth;the third the longest in the wing. This species, as beforestated, has no bristles at the gape. Females do not differ much from males on the upper parts ofthe body; but are said to want the brown spots on the species was, in 1829, made by Dr. Kaup the type ofhis genus Locustella, and beside the differences already in-dicated between it and the aquatic Warblers hitherto describedhere, the additional character may be given, that it has thetendons of the tibial muscles strongly ossified. Lnsciuiopsis hendersoni of Cassin (Proc. Acad. Philad. 1858, p. 194). Anothereastein species, which, though very distinct, has been confounded with it, is theSijlvhi lanceolata of Temuiinek. SAVlS WARBLER. PA SSERES. 389 ACROCEPHALUS LUSCINIOIDES (Savi*). SAVlS WAKBLEK. Salicaria luscinoides. Several examples of this Warbler have been procured inthis country, and there can be little doubt that it was aregular, though never a very abundant summer-visitant toEngland, until the drainage of the fens and meres of theEastern Counties wrought so thorough a change in theircondition and unfitted large districts for its habitation. Thefirst example of the species known to have been obtained inBritain, and probably in Europe — for it was assuredly thefirst example ever brought to the notice of naturalists, wasshot in Norfolk by the late Mr. James Brown of Norwich,about the middle of May in the early part of this is still preserved in the Norwich Museum, and Mr. Steven-son was favoured by Mr. Brown with the information that * Syhia /usrininidett, Savi, Nuovo Giornale de Letterati, vii. p. 341 (1824). 390 SYLVIID/E. the singular note of a bird had been remaiked by himsel
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