. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . plates behind, meeting so as toform an extremely thin edge. Toes extremely compressed,the second and fourth equal and rather long, the hind toelarge, but with its claw not so long as the third and its claw,the fourth united as far as the second joint. Claws rather long,moderately arched, extremely compressed, laterally grooved,very acute. 398 S
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . plates behind, meeting so as toform an extremely thin edge. Toes extremely compressed,the second and fourth equal and rather long, the hind toelarge, but with its claw not so long as the third and its claw,the fourth united as far as the second joint. Claws rather long,moderately arched, extremely compressed, laterally grooved,very acute. 398 SIBILATRIX. CHIRPER, Plumage soft and blended, the feathers broadly ovate androunded, with loose filaments. Wings of moderate length,a little curved, broad, semi-ovate ; quills eighteen ; the firstprimary about a fourth of the length of the second, which isa little shorter than the third, the rest of the primaries gra-dually diminishing, and with the secondaries rounded. Tailrather long, broad, graduated, nearly straight, the feathers ofmoderate breadth, and weak. Of this genus only one species, the Grasshopper Warbler,is found in Britain. 399 SIBILATRIX LOCUSTELLA. THE GRASSHOPPER CHIRPER. GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. CRICKET BIRD. SIBILOUS Fig. 179. Sylvia Locustella. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 515. Grasshopper Warbler. Mont. Orn. Diet. Bee-fin Locustelle. Sylvia Locustella. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 184. Salicaria Locustella. Grasshopper Warbler. Selb. lUustr. L 199. Sylvia Locustella. Grasshopper Warbler. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 106. Tail long, much graduated, and rounded ; plumage of theupper parts dull olive hroicn, tcith ohlong dushy spots, of thelower parts pale yellowish-broicn, the fore part of the neck witha few dusky lines, the tail-coverts with a central brown yelloicish-hrown, spotted with dusky above, brownish-yellow beneath. Male.—The Grasshopper Chirper is an elegantly formed al-though plainly coloured little bird, remarkable especially for itspeculiar cry, w
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