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Locustella nSBvia. GRASSHOPPEK- WARBLER. 



Motacilla nsevia Boddaert, Table des PI. Enl. 1783, 



p. 35, no. 581 : Ilaly. 



Locustella locustelk (Lath.) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 



1881, p. 115. 

 Locustella nsvia (Bodd.) ; B. 0. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 20 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 89. 

 Nsevia = that has spots (nsevus) on its body : hence, spotted. 

 Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor 

 more or less local, especially in Scotland, where it is 

 unknown in the northern counties. It has occurred at Fair 

 Isle, Shetlands, on several occasions as a Straggler. 



General Distribution. The Grasshopper- Warbler breeds 

 in the greater part of Europe, from south Norway, Finland, 

 and Lake Onega to northern Spain, central Italy, and 

 Hungary. It winters in northei-n Africa and perhaps southern 

 Spain. From the Caucasus and Orenburg to the Altai 

 Mountains and Turkestan it is represented by L. n. straminea, 

 which winters in the plains of India. 



Locustella lanceolata. TEMMINCK'S GRASSHOPPER- 

 WARBLER. 



Sylvia lanceolata Temminck, Man. d'Orn. iv. 1840, 

 p. 614: Mainz, errore ; Russia [Hartert]. 



Locustella lanceolata (Ternm.) ; Seebofim, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 

 1881, p. 118 ; HaigTi, British Birds, iii. 1910, p. 353. 



Lanceolata lance-shaped. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Is 

 known to have occurred on three occasions, namely, in 

 Lincolnshire, Nov. 1909 ; Fair Isle, Shetlands, Sept. 1908 ; 

 and Pentland Skerries, Orkneys, Oct. 1910. 



General Distribution. Temminck's Grasshopper-Warbler 

 breeds in Kamchatka, the Kurile Islands, northern Japan, 

 throughout Siberia, and uncommonly in Russia as far as 

 the Onega River. It winters in India, Burma, southern 

 China, and Borneo. 



