4-10 * 'NoY'KL'n'ES.-^Zocmiella snhsignata. 



weeds I have on several occasions seen this little bird start np 

 and run rapidly along- the ground ; I am unable to say whether 

 it is a permanent resident at the Andamans, or not ; I only met 

 with it for the first time, soon after my return to Port Blair from 

 the Nicobars." 



I have compared this bird with LocusteUa rniescens, • Blyth ; 

 L. Hendersonii, Cass.^ L. loctistella, Penn ; and with the plates 

 of L. ochoteyisis, Mid., and L. certhiola, Pallas. It is very 

 close to all of these but closest to L. Hendersonii, from which, 

 however, it differs most conspicuously in its strongly streaked 

 under surface. We only obtained two specimens, one very good 

 and one indifferent one ; but as the fates would have it, out of 

 the four wings, only one is perfect ; in this one wing the second 

 quill is a hair^s breadth the longest, infetead of the third being 

 the longest as in the other species of this genus ; I do not, 

 however, attach much importance to this, because amongst my 

 European L. locustella, I find one bird in which in one wing 

 the second primary is longer than the third. 



Dimensions. — Length, 5"1 ; wing, 2*15 ; bill at front, 0*4 ; tail 

 from vent, 1'9 ; tarsus, 0"7 ; hind toe and claw, 0-5. The second 

 primary conspicuously notched on the inner web just at the 

 tip, the notch being much nearer to the tip than in rudescens, 

 locusiella, ov Hendersonii. Bill, upper mandible, brown; lower 

 mandible, pale fleshy white ; legs and feet, very pale fl.eshy 

 brown ; irides, reddish wood brown. 



The whole upper surface, including the elongated upper tail 

 coverts, a pale, somewhat olivaceous brown, each feather with 

 a conspicuous, blackish brown mesial stripe; the tail which is 

 cuniform, plain pale hair brown, obsoletely barred; primai-ies 

 and secondaries, the same color as tail, very narrowly margined 

 at the tips with albescent, and less narrowly on the outer webs 

 with pale olivaceous brown; the shafts are albescent; the 

 tertiaries and coverts, a deeper hair brown, broadly margined 

 with the same olivaceous brown, as is exhibited on the rest of 

 the upper surface. There is an obscure huffy white line from 

 the nostril over the eye, and an ill-defined brownish band from 

 the lores under the eyes on to the ear coverts. The whole lower 

 parts are pale creamy yellow, shghtly tinged with rufesoent on 

 the flanks and lower tail coverts, and except at the point of the 

 chin and on the centre of the abdomen, every feather exhibits 

 near the tips an -oval blackish brown shaft spot, which spots are 

 very fine and closely set on the throat, somewhat larger on the 

 breast, broad and conspicuous on the flanks, and for the most 

 part reduced to mere lines on the lower tail coverts ; the wing 

 lining and axillaries are unstreaked, pale, buffy-yellow. 



