62 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



in Bucks. Scotland. — One, Fair Isle, spring, 1908 (W. E. Clarke, 

 Anil. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1909, p. 73 ; cf. Brit. B., ii, p. 423). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Spain, parts of France, Holland, and near 

 Geldern in the Rhenish Provinces, Italy, Sicily, Galizia, Poland, 

 parts of Russia, Hungary, and valley of Danube, also Egypt, and 

 probably north-west Africa. Winter-quarters not precisely known. 

 Replaced by paler race in Transcaspia and Turkestan. 



LOCUSTELLA CERTHIOLA 



132. Locustella certhiola (Pall.)— PALLAS 'S GRASSHOPPER- 

 WARBLER. 



MoTACiLLA Certhiola Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., i, p. 509 (1827 — 



Transbaikalia). 



Locustella certhiola Pall., Grant, Bull. B.O.C., xxiii, p. 18 ; Barrington, 



Brit. B., II, p. 230. 



Distribution. — Ireland. — One. Male, Rockabill Light (Dublin), 

 Sept. 28, 1908 {ut supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Siberia and Altai to Pacific, wintering 

 in India, Greater Sunda and Natuna Islands. Once Heligoland. 



LOCUSTELLA NJEVIA 



133. Locustella naevia naevia (Bodd.)— THE GRASSHOPPER- 

 WARBLER. 



MoTACiLLA N-.5:v-iA Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., p. 35 (1783 — ex Daubenton 

 pi. 581, 3 : Italy). 



Acrocephalus ncevius (Boddaert), Yarrell, i, p. 384 ; Locustella ncevia 

 (Boddaert), Saimders, p. 89. 



Distribution. — England, Wales, and Ireland. — Summer-resident 

 (mid-April to Sept.) local, but fairly evenly distributed in suitable 

 localities, rare Cornwall and very local Wales. Scotland. — Local 

 and thinly distributed in south-west and Clyde area, scarcer north- 

 wards, but breeding at wide intervals as far north as Arisaig (south- 

 west Inverness.) and Skj^e. On east side breeds locally as far as 

 Perth, and has been recorded as nesting at Pitlochrj^ (Perth.), and 

 even as far north as Elgin, north of which on mainland not noted 

 even as vagrant, but has occurred once (May 29, 1907) Fair Isle. 

 Has once occurred as far west as Skerry vore (off Tiree), but not in 

 O. Hebrides. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Middle and south Europe generally, 

 north to south Norway and Finland, south to north Spain, middle 

 Italy, and Slavonia, wintering in north-west Africa, and probably 

 south Spain. Replaced by L. n. straminea from Caucasus and Oren- 

 burg to Altai and Turkestan. 



