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the body reddish brown, -heavily streaked on the head, neck, and mantle with brownish black; 

 rump unspotted ; primaries and secondaries lighter than the back ; tail reddish brown, obscurely 

 banded with black ; tips of tail white, submarginally banded with blackish brown ; under surface 

 of the body whitish, strongly washed with buff on the chest, sides of the body, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. This species breeds in Siberia from the Tomsk government and the 

 Yenisei to the Altai range, and east to the river Amur, Ussuria, and the Pacific Ocean. Its 

 winter quarters lie in India south to Ceylon and the Andamans, Burma, the Great Sunda Isles, 

 and the Natuna group. It has once been recorded from Heligoland and once from Ireland, 

 (Rockabill Light, Co. Dublin, 28th September 1908). [F. c. R. j.] 



TEMMINCK'S GRASSHOPPER- WARBLER [Locustella lanceoldta (Temminck). Lanceolated- 

 warbler]. 



1. Description. Distinguished by having both the upper and under parts streaked and the 

 tail uniform. Sexes alike. Length 5 in. [140 mm.]. General coloration of the upper parts reddish 

 brown, each feather having a large blackish brown spot, producing a streaked appearance; wings 

 and tail greyish brown, margined on the outer web with olive-brown ; under surface of the 

 body whitish, streaked especially on the chest and sides of the body with blackish brown ; sides 

 of the body and under tail-coverts washed with buff. [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. Only recorded in Europe as breeding from the Onega river in North 

 Russia, by Meves, up to the present, but has probably been overlooked. In Asia Johansen has 

 recently recorded it from the Tomsk government, and from Kultuk it breeds east to Kamts- 

 chatka, and on the Kuriles, North Yezo, and Saghalien. On migration it occurs in Japan and 

 China, wintering in India, Burma, the Andaman Isles, Hainan, Borneo. Has been recorded 

 once from Dalmatia, once from Heligoland, and three times from Great Britain (Lines. 1909, 

 Fair Island 1908, and Orkneys 1910), all on autumn migration. [F. c. R. J.] 



THE ACCENTORS 1 



[ORDER : Passeriform.es. FAMILY : Accentoridcv] 



ALPINE-ACCENTOR [Accentor colldris (Scopoli); Prunella colldris (Scopoli). French, 

 fauvette des Alpes; German, Alpenbraunelle ; Italian, sordone]. 



1. Description. Distinguished from the common-hedgesparrow (vol. ii. p. 95) by its larger 

 size and its spotted throat and tail. Length 6| in. [165 mm.]. Sexes alike. General colour of 

 the upper parts whitish grey, all the feathers having a broad brownish black shaft-stripe, pro- 

 ducing a streaked appearance ; primaries brownish ash ; secondaries similarly coloured but 

 marked on the outer web with whitish ; coverts brownish black, tipped with white on their 

 outer webs ; throat white, each feather narrowly barred at the tip with black ; remainder of the 

 under parts ash-grey ; sides of the breast, belly, and flanks chesnut, margined with grey ; under 

 tail-coverts brownish black, broadly margined with white; iris brown; bill blackish brown, 

 yellowish at the base ; legs and feet cinnamon-brown ; claws black, [w. p. P. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. This species breeds in the Alpine zone of the great mountain ranges of 

 Central and South-western Europe, above the tree limit, from the Iberian Peninsula and the 

 Pyrenees to the Alps, Corsica, probably also Sardinia, the Apennines, Sicily, the Carpathians, 

 and the Riesengebirge. In the Balkan Peninsula, Caucasus, and Asia Minor, as well as in 

 various parts of temperate Asia, it is replaced by allied races. Though not strictly migratory, 

 it descends to lower elevations in the winter, and wanders to some extent. As a casual visitor 

 it has been recorded from Belgium, Heligoland, and about twenty times in Great Britain, 



1 Vol. ii. p. 95. 



