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SAVI'S WARBLER.

 

Salicaria luscinoides, Hewitson, Eggs of British Birds, 2nd Ed., vol. i, pp. 89*-90*, pl. 25* (egg), 1846; id., id., 3rd Ed., vol. i, pp. 115-116, pl. 31, fig. 2 (egg), 1856.

Lusciniopsis luscinioides, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp., pl. 77 (coloured figures of adults and nest), 1866.

Acrocephalus luscinioides, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., vol. i, edited by Newton, pp. 389-397 (woodcuts of adult and nest), 1873; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 46, pl. 23 (coloured figure of adult), 1886.

Locustella luscinioides, Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, pp. 627-632, pl. 93 (coloured figure of adult and nestling), 1875; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 346-349, pl. 10, fig. 20, 1883; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 91-92 (woodcut), 1898.

Dutch, Nachtigaal-Rietzanger; French, Fauvette des Saules; German, Weidenrohrsänger; Hungarian, Déli hádifülemile; Italian, Salciajola Pagliarol.

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE.

 

Adult Male in Spring.—All the upper parts are uniform olive brown. There is a distinct superciliary stripe, the lores are smoky grey, and the sides of the head are the same colour as the upper parts, but rather lighter. The shafts of the ear-coverts are cream colour. The night and tail feathers are brownish, the latter being marked by faint transverse bars. The throat and abdomen are white, the rest of the underparts together with the long under tail-coverts being pale rusty brown, the latter having greyish white tips. The underside of the tail is greyish brown, the axillaries pale chocolate colour, and the underside of the flight-feathers light greyish brown. The upper mandible is dark horn brown,

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