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HERBIVOCULA SCHWARZI* 



129. Herbivocula schwarzi (Radde) — RADDE'S BUSH- 

 WARBLER. 



Sylvia Schwakzi Radde, Reise Siiden v. O. Sibirien, 11, p. 260, pi. ix 

 (1863 — Tarei Xor and Bureja Mountains). 

 Lusciniola schwarzi (Radde), Saunders, p. 73*. 



Distribution. — England. — One, a young bird, North Cotes (Lines.), 

 Oct. 1, 1898 (G. H. Caton-Haigh, Bull. B.O.C., viii, p. vi.). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — East Siberia, wintering in south China, 

 Pegu, and Tenasserim. 



CETTIA CETTI 



130. Cettia cetti cetti (Marm.)— CETTI' S WARBLER. 



Sylvia Cetti Marmora, Mem. Accad. Torino, xxx, p. 254 (1820— 



Sardinia). 



Cettia cetti, Xicoll, Bull. B.O.C., xiv, p. 84 ; Saunders, Brit. B., i, p. 9. 



Distribution, — England. — Two. A male, Battle (Sussex), May 12, 

 1904 [ut supra). A female, Whatlington (Sussex), Sept. 1, 1906 

 (J. B. Xichols, Brit. B., i, p. 185). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — South France, Spain and Portugal, 

 Mallorca, Itaty, Sicih^ Corsica and Sardinia, north-west Africa, 

 south-east Europe and Asia Minor to Syria, and apparently Caucasus 

 and Crimea. Replaced by paler form in Khirgiz Steppes and east 

 Persia to Turkestan. 



LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIOIDES 



131. Locustella luscinioides luscinioides (Savi) — SAVI'S 

 WARBLER. 



Sylvla. luscinioides Savi, Xuovo Giom. Letter., vii, p. 341 (1824 — Pisa). 

 Acrocephalus luscinioides (Savi), Yarrell, i, p. 389 ; Locustella luscinioides 

 (Savi), Saimders, p. 91. 



Distribution. — England. — Formerly regular summer-resident in 

 small numbers fens of Norfolk, Cambs , and Hunts., but has not 

 appeared since 1856. A bird thought to be of this species seen in 

 Humber district May 24, 1897, and another said to have been seen 



* H. schwarzi is wrongly placed in the genus Lusciniola. It is apparently 

 most closely allied to the genus Phylloscopus, but differs from the latter in 

 sufficiently striking peculiarities to be separated generically. The genus 

 Herbivocula -svas established by Swinhoe in 1871. — E.H. 



