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3. Locustella luscinioides. 



Sylvia luscinioides, Sam,NuovoGiornale de Letter ati,^\\. p. 341 (1824); 



Hou.v, Orn. Prov. i. p. 325 (1825) ; Temm. Man. cTOrn. iii. p. 119 



(1835) ; Crespon, Orn. Gard. p. 120 (1840); Nordm. Demid. Voy. 



Russ. merid. iii. p. 142 (184U) ; Fallon, Ois. BeJg. p. 50 (1875). 

 Locustella luscinioides (Savi), Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 104 (1837) ; 



Brehm, Vogelf. p. 234 (1855) ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xxxviii. (1875). 

 Pseudolusciuia savii, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. l<,- N. Amer. p. 12 (1838). 

 Salicaria luscinioides (Savi), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Ear. pp. liii, 180 



(1840) ; Schl. Rev. Crit. p. xxviii (1844) ; Llarting, Handb. Br. B. 



p. 15 (1872). 

 Lusciniopsis savii (Bp.), Bp. Ucc. Eur. p. 36 (1842). 

 Galamodvta luscinioides (Savi), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 208. no. 2953 (18G9). 

 Cettia luscinioides (Savi), L. Gerbe, Diet. Univ. d" Hist. Nat. xi. p. 240 



(1848) ; Jaub. et Barth.-Lupomm. Rick. Orn. p. 251 (1859). 

 Calamoherpe luscinioides (Savi), Schl. Voy. Nederl. p. 149 (1854). 

 Lusciuiola savii (Bp.), Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 6 (1856) ; Loche, Expl. Sci. 



Alger., Ois. p. 2(.!o (1867). 

 Locustella savii (Bp.), Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 356. 

 Lusciniopsis luscinioides (Savi), Neict. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 11 



(1862) ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 520 (1867) ; Doderl. Avif. 



Sicil. p. 126 (1869) ; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 114 (1871) ; Gould, 



B. Gt. Br. ii. p. Ixxvii (1873). 

 Lusciniopsis luscinioides rufescens, A. E. Brehm, Vers. Samml. C. L. 



Brehm, p. 6 (1866). 

 Lusciniopsis luscinioides macrorli}Ticlius, A.E. Brehm, he. cit. (1866). 

 Lusciniopsis luscinioides brachyrhynchus, A. E. Brehm, loc. cit. (1866). 

 Calaniodyta (Lusciniopsis) luscinioides (Savi), Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 



p. 160 (1870). 

 Pseudolusciuia luscinioides (Savi), Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 89 (1872). 

 Acrocephalus luscinioides (Savi), Newt. ed. Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 389 



(1873). 

 Sylvia (Threnetria) luscinioides (Savi), Schauer, Journ. Orn. 1873, 



p. 161. 

 Threnetria acheta, Schauer, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 183. 

 Potamodus luscinioides (Savi), Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 199 (1876). 



Genei'al colour of the upper parts a uniform russet-brown, scarcely 

 duskier on the quills, and somewhat paler on the outside web of the 

 second primary ; eye-stripe narrow and very obscure ; lores and 

 the feathers behind the eye russet-brown ; generally obscure traces 

 of transverse bars on the tail. Underparts pale huffish brown, 

 shading into nearly white on the throat and centre of belly ; axil- 

 laries, under wing-coverts, and obscure inner margin to the quills 

 pale huffish brown ; under tail-coverts pale chestnut, with obscure 

 paler tips. Bill typically Locustelline ; upper mandible dark brown, 

 under mandible pale horn-colour ; rictal bristles obsolete. Wings 

 short, rather blunt, but not much concaved ; second primary equal 

 to or slightly longer than the third ; bastard primary very small, 

 and not extending beyond the primary-coverts, even in birds of the 

 year. Tail shorter than the wing ; outside feathers 0-6 to 0-7 inch 

 shorter than the longest, and shorter than the under tail-coverts. 

 Legs, feet, and claws pale brown. Length of wing 2-8 to 2-51 

 inches, tail 2-54 to 2-15, culmen 0-61 to 0-56, tarsus 0-9 to 0"85. 



