. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 2. PASSERINE. 179. reddish-browD above, yellowish beneatb, the throat white. [This 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. olivetorum, Strickland), which is rather smaller, is common in Syria. The rest are con- siderably less, and there is one of these, a miniature of 5. turdoides, which is very common, tho
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 2. PASSERINE. 179. reddish-browD above, yellowish beneatb, the throat white. [This 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. olivetorum, Strickland), which is rather smaller, is common in Syria. The rest are con- siderably less, and there is one of these, a miniature of 5. turdoides, which is very common, though local, in South Britain, migrating in winter, as do all the rest: the S. arundinacea, Auct. Tfiey are the Calamoherpe, Meyer. Other species have smaller bills, and are generally striated on the back, with longitudinal whitish streaks on the head, the Calamodyta, Bonap. Among them we find] The Sedge Babbler {Mot. salicaria, Lin.; [, 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 sparrow-like tone of many of its chirpings, which has induced an erroneous opinion that it is an imitator or mimic. There are sevenil 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 Lociistelle (L. Rati, Auct.), or the Grasshopper Warbler of many writers, (fig. 88), the dorsal plumage of whichiscolouredlikethatof the Water Rail. It is common in many distri
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