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ad. Differs from L. fuscata in having the bill stouter, the throat and 

 belly greenish white, and the feet more slender, fiist primary 0'7, second 

 equal to or a trifle shorter than the 8th. 



Hob. China and Mongolia, the Muniula mountains on the 

 Tschurmyn river, and the upper Chuanche. 



It does not occur in the mountain-forests in summer, but 

 frequents the river-banks where there are dense bush-thickets, 

 and breeds in the deciduous woods close to running water. It 

 breeds in June and a nest was found by Prjevalsky in a 

 barberry bush about five feet above the ground, which was 

 round with the entrance hole in the side, and was constructed 

 of dry grass lined with feathers of Phasianus strauchi. The 5 

 eggs were white, spotted with clay colour, and in size averaged 

 15'9 by 12-9 millimetres (0'63 by O47 inch). 



181. RADDE'S WARBLER. 

 LUSCINIOLA SCHWARZI. 



Lusciniola schwarzi, (Radde), Reis. Sib. Vb'gel, p. 260, Taf. ix. figs, a, &, 

 c, (1863) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 128 ; Pleske, Orn. Eoss. 

 ii. p. 388 ; Saunders, p. 73 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. O. p. 276. 



ad. (E. Siberia). Upper parts dusky olivaceous brown, the rump 

 tinged with tawny brown ; wings and tail brown, externally margined 

 with olivaceous brown ; supercilium buff, strongly defined and reaching 

 to the nape ; lores and feathers behind the eye dark brown ; ear-coverts 

 buff and brown ; underparts white tinged with pale buff ; bill horn, fleshy 

 white at the base, legs fleshy yellow ; iris brown. Culmen 0'5, wing2'45, 

 tail 2'1, tarsus 0'9 inch ; first primary more than half as long as the 

 second, which is intermediate between the 7th and 8th, fourth and fifth 

 longest. After the autumn moult the upper parts are tawny olive and 

 the under parts are washed with tawny buff. 



Hob. South-east Siberia from Transbaikalia to the island of 

 Saghalien ; and winters in southern China, Pegu, and northern 

 and central Tenasserim ; has occurred once in Lincolnshire. 



It inhabits deciduous groves and the borders of forests where 

 the bushes are dense. Its song is loud but short and not of a 

 liigh quality. Nothing is known respecting its nidification. 



