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Savi, n. Ornith.|ˈsævɪ|
[The name of Paolo Savi (1798–1871), Italian zoologist and geologist, who described the bird (1824, in Nuovo Giornale de Letterati VII. 341).]
Savi's warbler, a warbler, Locustella luscinioides, found in marshland and reed-beds of central and eastern Europe, similar in appearance to the reed-warbler but with a song more like that of the grasshopper warbler.
1843W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. p. vi, Savi's Warbler: Salicaria luscinoides [sic]. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 317/1 Savi's warbler, Locustella luscinioides,..was only recognized as a constant inhabitant of the Fen district of England a few years before its haunts were destroyed by drainage. 1956Brit. Birds XLIX. 326 The rufous brown colour of the back and lack of streaking..together with such short bursts of reeling indicated a Savi's Warbler (L. luscinioides). 1985E. Simms Brit. Warblers xiii. 146 Since the year 1960, Savi's Warblers have occurred with increasing frequency in Britain. |