160 LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIOIDES. 



NOTE XX. 



LOCUSTELLA LUSCINIOIDES, 



FOUND BREEDING IN THE PROVINCE OF FRIESLAND 

 (NETHERLANDS) 



P. J. BOLLEMAN VAN DER VEEN. 



On the 14th of July 1893 I obtained a nest with one 

 egg of Locustella luscinioides in the environs of Leeuwarden. 

 This fact seems to me to be remarkable, seeing that Pro- 

 fessor H. Schlegel in his » Vogels van Nederland" (De 

 dieren van Nederland: Vogels, vol. I, p. 63, 1878) says: 

 »In our country this bird is found breeding hitherto only 

 near and on the banks of the river »Maas", 

 near Kralingen for instance." 



The same is said by Dr. J. Ritzema Bos in his »Land- 

 bouwdierkunde". 



Moreover Dr. Bowdler Sharpe says in his » Handbook 

 to the Birds of Great Britain" (1894, vol. I, p. 240): » — 

 in Holland , where the bird was once common , the same 

 causes of its restriction have been at work , and , owing to 

 the extensive drainage of recent years, it has become 

 much rarer." 



The nest and the egg entirely agree as well with the 

 descriptions in »Brehm's Thierleben" (Vogel, vol. II, p. 

 227) and in »Onze vogels in huis en tuin", by Mr. H. G. 

 Keulemans (vol. Ill, 1873), as with the nest in the 

 Leyden Museum. 



Ley den, April 1896. 



Notes from tlie Leyden Aluseutn, "Vol. XVIII. 



