132 LOCUSTELLA 



187. EASTERN GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. 

 LOCUSTELLA STRAMINEA. 



Locustella straminea, (Severtzoff), Turk. Jevot. p. 66 (1873) ; Dresser, 

 ix. p. 95, pi. 652 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mas. v. p. 117 ; Gates, F. 

 Brit. Ind. Biids, i. p. 354 ; L. hendersoni, (Cass.) apud. Hume. Str, 

 Feath. vi. p. 340 ; Dresser, ii. p. 614. 



ad. (Ural). 'Differs from L. ncevia in being smaller paler and more 

 olivaceous in colour, the dark markings stronger denned, the under parts 

 white, washed with buff on the breast and flanks ; bill horn-brown, 

 yellowish at base ; legs dull yellowish flesh ; iris brown. Culmen 0'55, 

 wing 2*15, tail 1'95, tarsus 0'82 inch ; first primary equal to the coverts, 

 second intermediate between the 5th and 6th, third longest. 



Hob. From the Ural range, through Turkestan to the Pamirs, 

 breeding in the Ural, Transcaspia, and Turkestan, and wintering 

 in the plains of India. 



In habits it does not differ from its .western ally, and its nest 

 and eggs, of which I do not find any description, doubtless 

 resemble those of that species. 



188. LANCEOLATED WARBLER. 

 LOCUSTELLA LANCEOLATA. 



Locustella lanceolata, (Temm.) Man d'Orn. iv. p. 614 (1840) ; Dresser, ii. 

 p. 617, pi. 92, fig. 2 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. v. p. 118 ; Pleske, 

 Orn. Ross. ii. p. 626 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, i. p. 353. 



Pertouzi kritschal, Russ. 



ad. (E. Siberia). Upper parts dark olive-grey tinged with brown 

 distinctly streaked with blackish brown ; wings and tail dark brown 

 margined with greyish brown ; sides of the head pale olive-grey streaked 

 with dark olivaceous ; superciliary stripe dull white ; under parts white 

 tinged with ochreous and streaked with blackish brown, except the chin 

 and abdomen ; bill dark brown, the base of tl^e lower mandible yellowish ; 

 legs fleshy white ; iris dark brown. Culmen 0'5, wing 2*2, tail 1*83, 

 tarsus 0'7 jinch. Female similar jbut a trifle smaller. In the autumn 

 dress the upper parts are tinged with reddish brown ; very old birds have 

 the under parts less striped, some being almost without stripes. Young 

 birds have the under parts washed with ochreous, and have the upper 

 parts more olivaceous in tinge. 



Hob. Of very rare occurrence in Russia west of the Ural, but 

 is generally distributed in Siberia as far east as Saghalien and 



