98 BIRDS OF EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA 



LOCUSTELLA. 



Small reddish brown Warblers, ist primary shorter than 

 coverts; no rictal bristles; tail rounded, under tail coverts 

 long, reaching over tips of lateral rectrices; frequent marshy 

 and reedy but also drier places; nest a cup near ground in 

 herbage or brushwood; eggs white, pinkish when fresh, finely 

 dotted or freckled with reddish brown. 



Locustella fluviatilis (Wolf). River Warbler. Ger. 

 Flussrohrsanger. 



^ $ Above greenish olive brown, not striated ; tail faintly 

 barred ; beneath paler, whitish on throat and abdomen, and boldly 

 streaked with olive brown on throat and breast ; under tail coverts 

 broadly tipped white. Bill dark brown, pale below. Legs and feet 

 brown. Wing $ 75-79, ? 70-75. Tarsus 20-22 (H.). Bill 9-1 r. 



Breeds. — E. Germany (local), Poland, Baltic Provinces, S. 

 and C. Finland, Austria, S. Hungary, Transylvania, Rumania, 

 Central Russia north to 60" and east to Urals and Lower 

 Volga. Migrates ; occurs on passage S. Russia, Asia Minor and 

 Palestine ; has been obtained E. Africa in winter. 



" L. f. obscura" Tschusi described from Bosnia is not con- 

 sidered separable. 



Locustella luscinioides luscinioides (Savi). Savi's 

 Warbler. Fr. Fauvette des Saules ; Ger. Nachtigall-Rohr- 

 siinger ; Ifal. Salciaiola. 



^ $ Above reddish brown, tinged olive, not striated ; tail 

 faintly barred ; beneath reddish buff, throat and abdomen white, 

 throat and breast not striated. Bill dark brown above, pale 

 below. Legs and feet pale brown. Wing $ (^7-7^, ? 65-70. 

 Tarsus 21-22. Culmen ^ 16-17, ? 15-15-5 (H.). 



Breeds. — S. France, Italy (local) especially north, Spain, 

 Algeria, Tunisia, Holland and adjacent Rhine territory, E. Prussia, 

 Poland, Galicia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, C. and S. Russia 

 north to Ufa and Volga Delta, Crete, and probably Palestine. 

 Migrates ; occurs on passage in Egypt and in winter in Morocco 

 and Sahara. Accidental Britain (formerly bred English fens), 



" L. 1. geyri " Koenig described from Rhine Provinces is not 

 considered separable. 



