. 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 hristles at the gape. Females do not differ much from males on t he upper parts ofthe body; hut are said to want the In-own spots on the breast. This species was, in 1829, made by Dr. Kaup the type ofhis genus Locustclla, and be
. 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 hristles at the gape. Females do not differ much from males on t he upper parts ofthe body; hut are said to want the In-own spots on the breast. This species was, in 1829, made by Dr. Kaup the type ofhis genus Locustclla, and beside the differences already in-dicated between it and the aquatic Warblers hitherto describedhere, the additional character may lie given, that it has thetendons of the tibial muscles strongly ossified. / niopsis hendersoni of Cassin Proc. Acad. Pliilad. L858, p. 194). Anothereastern species, which, though very distinct, lias lietn confounded with it, is theSuit-in lanceolatn of Temminck. SAVI S FASSEBES. SYLVIID^ ACROCEPHALUS LUSCINIOIDES (Savi *). SAVIS W ABB LEE. Salicai■ia /useinoides. 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 * Sylvia , Savi, Nuovo Giornale de Letterati, vii. p. 341 (1824). 390 the singular note of a bird had been remarked by
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