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or yellowish stone-grey, blotched, spotted, and 

 clouded with brown of various shades ; deep olive, 

 with underlying markings of ash-grey. The mark- 

 ings are variously distributed, occasionally being 

 congregated at the larger end. Some specimens 

 are marbled with brown. Size about .77 by .6 in. 

 Often indistinguishable from those of the Black- 

 cap, except by a sight of the parent birds. (See 

 Plate IV.) 



Time. May and June. 



Remarks. Migratory, arriving in April and 

 May, and departing in September or October. 

 Notes : song, deep, harmonious, and mellow ; 

 call, tee. Local and other names : Petty chaps, 

 Fauvette, Greater Pettychaps, Fig Bird. Sits 

 closely. 



WARBLER, GRASSHOPPER. 



(Locustella HKvia^] 

 Order PASSERES ; Family SYLVIID^: (WARBLERS). 



Description of Parent 

 Birds. Length about five 

 and a half inches ; bill of 

 medium length, straight, 

 strong, and brown in colour. 

 Irides brown. Crown, nape, 

 back of neck, back, and 

 wings olive-brown, the centre 



GRASSHOPPER ^WARBLER of each feather being of a 

 ON NEST darker tinge ; tail rather long, 



much rounded at the tip, and brown, barred with a 

 paler tinge of the same colour ; chin, throat, breast, 

 and all under-parts pale brown, darker on the flanks. 



