LOCUSTELLA. 73 



Locustella certhiola. PALLAS' GRASSHOPPER- 

 WARBLER. 



Motacilla certhiola Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. 1827, 



p. 509 : Transbaikalia. 



Locustella certhiola (Pallas') ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 1881, 

 p. 114 ; Barrington, British Birds, ii. 1908, p. 230. 



Certhiola, diminutive from Certhia, q. v. p. 50. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 occurred once only, namely at Rockabill Light, co. Dublin, 

 Sept. 1908. 



General Distribution. Pallas' Grasshopper- Warbler breeds 

 in Siberia, from Tomsk and the Yenesei eastwards to the 

 mouth of the Amur River, and from the Altai Mountains to 

 the shores of the Pacific. It winters in India, Burma, and 

 the islands of the Malay Archipelago and has occurred on 

 Heligoland. 



Locustella luscinioides. SAVI'S GRASSHOPPER- 

 WARBLER. 



Sylvia luscinioides Sam, Nuovo Giornale de Litterati, 

 Pisa, vii. 1824, p. 341 : Pisa. 



Locustella luscinioides (Savi) ; Seebohm, Oat. Birds B. M. v. 



1881, p. 112 ; B. O. V. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 21 ; Sounders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 91. 



Luscinioides, a hybrid word from lwscima = a Nightingale, and elSos = form. 

 Distribution in the British Islands. Until the year 1856, 

 a Summer Visitor to the fen districts of Norfolk, Cambridge- 

 shire, and .Huntingdon. Since its disappearance it has only 

 been once reported in our Islands, namely at Fair Isle, 

 Shetlauds, in June 1908. 



General Distribution. Savi's Warbler breeds locally in 

 Spain, France, Holland, the Rhenish Provinces, Poland, 

 Galicia, Italy, Sicily, Hungary, the valley of the Danube, 

 and central and southern Russia ; also in Egypt and north- 

 west Africa. Its winter quarters are probably in Africa. 

 In Trauscaspia and Turkestan a paler race, L. I. fusca, has 

 been recognised. 



