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313. LOCUStella Straminea, (Sever IK). Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 v. p. 117. Acridiornis straminea, Severtz, TurkesL, Jevotn. p. 66, 1873. 

 Locustella lanceolata, (Tern.) apud. Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 90. Locustella 

 Hendersoni, (Cass.) apud. Hu?ne, Sir. F. vi. p. 340, 1878. The SIBERIAN 

 GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 



Upper parts pale olivaceous brown, each feather having a well denned dark 

 brown centre ; lores and feathers behind the eye olivaceous brown, obscurely 

 streaked, supercilium nearly obsolete ; wings brown, the outside webs edged 

 with pale olivaceous brown ; tail brown, also edged paler externally and 

 tipped obscurely with the same ; chin, throat, and centre of abdomen white, 

 shaded with brownish on the flanks and breast, and greyish white on the under 

 tail coverts, which are centred brown ; upper mandible dark brown, the lower 

 pale horn ; rictal bristles obsolete. 



Legs, feet, and claws pale horn. (Seebohm.) 



Length. 4*95 inches; wing 2*4 to 2*05; tail 1*9 to 2'2j culmen 0*48 

 to O'55 ; 2nd primary between ^th and $th or $th and 6th. 



Hab. N. W* Provinces (Etawah). 



Seebohm says it is supposed to breed in South-Western, Siberia from the 

 Ural Mountains to Turkestan, and to winter in the plains of India. 



314. Locustella lanceolata, (Tem.) Wait, ibis, 1874, p. 139; M> in 



Blyth, B. Burm. p. 121 ; Dresser, B. Eur. ii. p. 617; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. v. p. 1 1 8 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 104 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. 

 p. 1 1 8. Sylvia lanceolata, Tem. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 614. Lusciniopsis hendersoni, 

 Cass. in Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc. 1858, p. 194. Locustella minuta, Swinh. y P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 93. Locustella macropus, Swinh., P. Z. 8, 1863, p. 93. Locustella 

 subsignata, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 409. TEMMINCK'S GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 



Upper parts russet brown, each feather centred with dark brown ; quills 

 brown, the primaries and secondaries externally edged with russet brown, and 

 the tertiaries on both webs ; tail brown, obscurely edged paler ; ear coverts 

 hair brown ; sides of the head streaked with russet and dark brown ; chin, 

 throat, and centre of abdomen ochraceous white ; rest of under surface darker 

 ochraceous, streaked with blackish brown ; under wing coverts pale vinaceous ; 

 legs fleshy white ; claws pale horn ; upper mandible dark brown, the lower 

 yellow at base and brown at tip; iris brown ; 2nd primary generally between 

 the yd and ^th. 



Length. $"2. inches; wing 2'i to 2-25 ; tail r8 to 2; tarsus 075 to 078; 

 culmen 0-55 ; from gape 0*6. 



Hab. British Burmah and the Andaman Islands during winter. In Pegu 

 Gates found it abundant from October to February. Mr. Davison procured it at 



