5. LOCtrSTELLA. 109 



d'. Head and back with clearly-defined dark 



centres to the feathers certhiola, p. 114. 



d. Tail-feathers uniform in colour, but generally 

 with obscure traces of transverse bars. 

 e'. Spots on the back obscureh' defined. Second 

 primary between the third and fourth, or 



fourth and fifth locustella, p. 115. 



/'. Spots on the back clearly defined. 



a". Upper parts brown with a shade of olive; 

 underparts unspotted, except under tail- 

 coverts, which have dark longitudinal 

 central streaks. Second primary generally 

 between the fourth and fifth, or fifth 



and sixth straminea, p. 117. 



h". Upper parts brown, with a shade of russet ; 

 underparts varying from having every 

 feather with a dark longitudinal central 

 streak, to having no streaks on any of 

 the feathers of the underparts. Second 

 primary generally between the third and 

 fourth lanceolata, p. 1 18. 



1. Locustella fasciolata. (Plate V.) 



Acrocephalus fasciolatus. Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. .349 ; Seehohm, 



P. Z. S. 1877, p. 806 ; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 430. 

 Acrocephalus insularis, Wallace, Ibis, 1862, p. SoO. 

 Calamoherpe fumigata, Swinhoe, P. Z. 8. 1863, pp. 91, 293. 

 Locustella fasciolata {Gray), Blyth, Pns, 1867, p. 21 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 



1879, p. lo. 

 Locustella insularis ( Wallace), Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 21. 

 Calaniodvta fumigata {Sivinh.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 207. no. 2937 



(1869)'. 

 Calamodvta fasciolata {Gray), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 207. no. 2024 



(1869/; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 352; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, 



p. 253 (1877). 

 Calamodvta insularis {Wall.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 207. no. 2925 



(186ilj ; Sivinhue, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 352 ; David et Ottst. Ois. Chine, 



p. 253 (1877). 

 Calaujoherpe subflavescens, Blliot, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 243. 

 Calamoherpe fasciolatus {Gray), Tacz. Jour?!. Orn. 1872, p. 353; 



id. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, p. l38 (1876). 



The general colour of the upper parts is russet-brown, becoming 

 slightly more rufous on the rump and upper tail-coverts, and shading 

 into dark olive-brown on the nape and head ; lores and the feathers 

 behind the eye dark brown ; eye-stripe pale ash-grey, verj- indis- 

 tinct, and losing itself at the nape ; wings and tail dark russet- 

 brown, the outside webs of each feather edged with russet-brown ; 

 outside web of the second primary pale ; chin, throat, and breast 

 pale ash-grey, shading into nearly white on the centre of the belly, 

 into olive-brown on the flanks and thighs, and into pale ochraceous 

 brown on the under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 pale russet -brown ; inner margin of quills palish brown. Bill more 

 slender and less wide at the base than in similar-sized Acrocejjhali -^ 



