524 Birds of Celebes: Sylviidae. 



GENUS LOCUSTELLA Kaup. 



Very similar to Acrocephalus , but having the tail much more strongly 

 graduated, the outermost rectrix falling short of the middle ones by more than 

 '/i of the tail-length, the tail -coverts almost equally long; the rictal bristles very 

 small and inconspicuous. Two species of this northern genus are known as 

 winter visitors to the Celebesian area. 



+ 216. LOCUSTELLA FASCIOLATA (G. R. Gray). 

 Gray's Grasshopper-warbler. 



a. Acrocephalus fasciolatus (1) Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, 349; (2) Seek, P. Z. S. 1877, 806; 



(3) Tweeckl, P. Z. S. 1878, 430. 



b. Acrocephalus insularis (1) Wall., Ibis 1862, 350; (2) Salvacl., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. IX, 



1876, 59. 



Locustella fasciolata (1) Blyth, I\ns 1867, 21; (2) Seeb., Ibis 1878, 490; (3) id., Ibis 1879, 

 15; [IV) id., bat. B., V, 1881, 109, pi. V; (5) Salvad., Orn. Pap. H, 1881, 426; 

 (6) Wardl. Earns., Tweedd. Orn. Works 1881, 657; (7) Pleske, Bull. Ac. Sc. 

 Petersb. 1884, 127; (8) Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 6; (9) Tacz., Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 Fr. 1885, 467; (10) Nikolski, Be de Sakbal. et safaune 1889, 179; (11) W.Blas., Ornis 

 1888, 605; (12) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 152; (13) Steere, List B. & M. Philipp. 

 Is. 1890, 20; (14) Salvad., Orn. Pap. Agg. 1890, 138; (15) Seeb., B. Japan Einp. 

 1890, 72; (16) Tacz., Faune Orn. Sibe'rie Orient. 1891, 249; (16'''') Pleske, Vcig. 

 Russ. Reichs H, 564 (1891); (17) M. & Wg., J. f. 0. 1894, 246; (18) Grant, Ibis 

 1894, 408; (19) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 9, p. 6. 



c. Calamodyta fasciolata (1) Gray, HL. I, 1869, 207, Nr. 2924; (2) Swinb., P. Z. S. 1871, 



352; (3) David & Oust., Ois. Cbine 1877, 253. 



d. Calamodyta insularis (1) Gray, HL. I, 1869, 207, Nr. 2925; (2) Swinb., P. Z. S. 1871, 



352; I 3j id., Ibis 1874, 437; (4) id., Ibis 1876, 332; (5) David & Oust, Ois. Cbine 



1877, 253; (6) Seek, Ibis 1879, 35; (7) De La Toucbe, Ibis 1892, 411. 



e. Arnndinax fasciolatus (1) Swinb., Ibis 1876, 332. 

 "Putiareoloa'" or "Tikarelo", Talaut, Nat. Coll. 17. 



For further synonymy and references of. Seebobm a 2, 3, IV; Salvadori 5. 



Figure and descriptions. Seebobm IV; Gray a 1 {= juv.); Wallace bl (= ad.); David 

 & Oustalet c3 (^ juv.), rf 5 (^ ad.); Salvadori 5; Taczanowski 16. 



Adult, Above bistre-brown, more rufous-brown on tbe rimip, tail and outer edges of the 

 wing-coverts and quills; from tbe lores to above the ear-coverts a jiale super- 

 ciliary stripe; ear-coverts with wliitisb shaft-streaks; under-parts white, strongly 

 tinged with drab on the fore-neck and chest, -n-itli more olivaceous bro'rni on the sides 

 and flanks, becoming on flanks under tail- and wing-coverts isabelbne (Talaut, 

 Oct. 1896 — C 15398). 



Bim round eye yellowish; upper mandible blackish brown, edge yellowish, lower 

 mandible chrome-yellow at base, tip brownish; mouth chrome-yellow (Swinhoe d 3). 



Sex. Differences of coloration are not known to exist. Seebobm examined two females in 

 which "tbe pale ash-grey of the cbm, throat, and breast was replaced on the chin 

 and upper throat by pale brownish white, shatbng into brown on the lower throat, 

 which became more ochraceous on the breast". 



