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SIBILATRIX LOCUSTELLA. THE GRASSHOPPER 



CHIRPER. 



GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. CRICKET BIRD. SIBILOUS BRAKEHOPPER. 



Fig. 179. 



Sylvia Locustella. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 515. 



Grasshopper Warbler. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bee-fin Locustelle. Sylvia Locustella. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 184. 



Salicaria Locustella. Grasshopper Warbler. Selb. lUustr. L 199. 



Sylvia Locustella. Grasshopper Warbler. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 106. 



Tail long, much graduated, and rounded ; plumage of the 

 upper parts dull olive hroicn, tcith ohlong dushy spots, of the 

 lower parts pale yellowish-broicn, the fore part of the neck with 

 a few dusky lines, the tail-coverts with a central brown mark. 

 Young yelloicish-hrown, spotted with dusky above, brownish- 

 yellow beneath. 



Male. — The Grasshopper Chirper is an elegantly formed al- 

 though plainly coloured little bird, remarkable especially for its 

 peculiar cry, which bears a great resemblance to that of the 

 Mole Cricket. Its general form is very slender; the head 

 rather small and much narrowed anteriorly, the neck rather 

 short ; the bill of moderate length, slender, acute, about the 

 same breadth and height at the base; the upper mandible 

 with its dorsal outline sloping a little, the sides sloping at the 



