SAVrS GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. 171 



redder birds are males, those more olive females ; others that 

 this is individual variation. Length, 5*4 ins. Wing, 2'4 ins. 

 Tarsus '8 in. 



Lanceolated or Temminck's Grasshopper-Warbler. 



Locustella lanceolata (Temm.). 



This small Grasshopper- Warbler, distinguished by its more 

 decided streaks and by the spots on its under parts being on a 

 nearly white ground, is a Siberian bird which winters in China, 

 Borneo and India. In the autumn of 1909 one was obtained on 

 the Lincolnshire coast, and it was subsequently discovered that 

 a bird taken on Fair Island in the previous autumn was of the 

 same species ; in 19 10 it was recognised in Orkney. Mr. Caton 

 Haigh, describing his Lincolnshire bird, says that the bill was 

 horn-coloured, yellow at the base of the lower mandible, and 

 that the legs and feet were " white, with a very faint tinge of 

 flesh colour." Length, 475 ins. Wing, 2-2 ins. Tarsus 7 in. 



Pallas' Grasshopper-Warbler. Locustella 

 certhiola (Pallas). 



The range of Pallas' Warbler roughly corresponds with that 

 of the last species. It is a larger bird than our Grasshopper- 

 Warbler, with white under parts, tinged with buff, and with the 

 tail feathers tipped with greyish white. An immature bird 

 struck the Rockabill light, Dublin, in September, 1901. It has 

 once been recorded from Heligoland. Length, 5*25 ins. Wing, 

 2*8 ins. Tarsus, '9 in. 



Savi's Grasshopper- Warbler. Locustella 

 l2isci?iioides (Savi). 



Were it not for the occurrence at Fair Island in the spring 

 of 1908 of an example of Savi's Warbler (Plate 70) the bird 



