LOCUSTELLA. 



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cap at the broad end, in others an ill-defined zone. They measure 

 from "73 to '8 in length, and from *53 to - 6 in breadth. 



Cambridgeshire, 1854 (H. Howard). 



Holland, 20th May. 



Holland. 



Holland, 2nd June. 



Holland {Tristram Coll.). 



Germany, June. 



Hungary, 6th June. 



South Spain (L. H. Irby). 



Zana, Algeria, June (O. Salvin). 



Zana (0. S. : Tristram Coll.). 



Zana, 11th June (H. B. Tristram). 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Locustella nsevia (Bodd.). 

 (Plate VIII. fig. 21.) 



Sylvia locustella, Thien. Fortpfianz. ges. Vog. p. 200, tab. xxi. fig. 8, a-c 



(1845-54). 

 Locustella naevia, Baedeker, Bier Bur. Vog. tab. 19. fig. 21 (1855-G3) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 611 (1874) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 186 



(1903). 

 Salicaria locustella, Heioitson, Bggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 112, pi. xxxi. 



fig. i (1856). 

 Locustella locustella, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 115 (1831) ; id. 



Brit. Birds, i. p. 340, pi. 10 (1883) ; id. Bggs of Brit. Birds, p. 194, 



pi. 52. fig. 1 (1896). 



The eggs of the Grasshopper- Warbler are of a broad pointed oval 

 form and very glossy. The ground-colour is white or pinkish white, 

 very thickly speckled with minute dots of rufous or chestnut- 

 brown. The markings sometimes form a very broad and dense 

 zone round the larger eud and sometimes an ill-defined cap, but, as 

 a rule, they are evenly spread over the entire shell. In a few 

 specimens the markings are comparatively large and blotchy. 

 When carefully examined, most of the specimens will be found to 

 be sprinkled with pale underlying grey, and a few examples have 

 some dark hair-lines at the broad end. The eggs measure from '05 

 to -75 in length, and from "5 to "55 in breadth. 



G. Co. Waterford, 31st May (R. J. 



Ussher). 

 5. Co. Waterford, 1st June (E. J. U.). 

 4. Newcastle, 10th May (R. Greenwell). 



4. Newcastle, 20th May (R. G.). 



5. Newcastle, 17th May (Hargitt Coll.). 

 4. Northumberland, 14th May. 



3. Castle Eden, Durham, 30th May 



(Tristram Coll.). 

 7. Blaydon-on-Tyne, Durham, 28th 

 June (Hargitt Coll.). 



4. Feltwell, Norfolk. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

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