Archive image from page 202 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 191 reddisli-brown above, yellowish beneath, the throat white. [Tliis species, which passes for a good songster though extremely common on the opposite coast of Holland, has not yet been detected in the British islands. A nearly allied species {S. olivetonan, Strickland), which is rather smaller, is common in Syria. The rest are con- siderably less, and there is one of these, a miniature of S. tiirdoidcs, which is
Archive image from page 202 of Cuvier's animal kingdom arranged. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization cuviersanimalkin00cuvi Year: 1840 191 reddisli-brown above, yellowish beneath, the throat white. [Tliis species, which passes for a good songster though extremely common on the opposite coast of Holland, has not yet been detected in the British islands. A nearly allied species {S. olivetonan, Strickland), which is rather smaller, is common in Syria. The rest are con- siderably less, and there is one of these, a miniature of S. tiirdoidcs, which is very common, though local, in South Britain, migrating in winter, as do all the rest : the S. arundinacea, Auct. They are the Calamoherpc, Meyer. Other species have smaller bills, and are generally striated on the back, with longitudinal whitish streaks on the head, the Calamodi/ta, Bonap. Among them we find] The Sedge Babbler (Mot. salicaria, Lin. ; [.S. phrapinitis, Auct.] ) ; distinguished by a conspicuous whitish streak over each eye. [This bird is also a common summer visitant in Britain, more generally distributed than the Reed Babbler (S. arundinacea) ; and is remarkable for the spari'ow-like tone of many of its chirpings, which has induced an erroneous opinion that it is an imitator or mimic. There are several others. Some species, not far removed from the Babblers, are remarkable for the absence of bristles at the gape (which in the latter are rather conspicuous), for their graduated tail, composed of broad, soft feathers, their deli- cately-formed feet, with straight claws, and particularly for the singularity of their note, which consists of a pro- longed sibilant trill, somewhat resembling that of the ]Mole-cricket. They compose the Locustella of Gould, of which three species inhabit Europe. Such, in Britain, is Ray's Locustelle {L. Rail, Auct.), or the Grasshopper Warbler of many writers, (fig. 88), the dorsal plumage of which is coloured like that of the Water Rai
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