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in suitable localities throughout India. From the specimens then 

 procured, towards the end of March and beginning of April, Mr. 

 Blyth was led to doubt their identity with the English bird. On 

 comparing it with Temminck's description of & certhiola, it appears 

 to me to correspond sufficiently well, the pale tip to the tail, one of 

 the distinguishing points of the latter from S. locustetta, being dis- 

 tinctly present, in which, however, it agrees with the next bird 

 (Locustetta rubescens.) 



This bird frequents long grass and grain, and is with some difficulty 

 procured, as it always tries to conceal itself amo ng the long grass ; 

 and when flushed takes but a very short flight, again hides itself, 

 and is with difficulty dislodged. It probably breeds in this country. 

 It feeds entirely on insects." 



When the first edition of this work was written very few specimens 

 of this bird were in collections. I am now able to figure a male 

 bird and egg from my own collection. The adult male bird in the 

 June plumage has the upper parts grounded with dark chesnut, 

 beautifully streaked longitudinally with black, particularly on the head, 

 nape, back, and upper tail coverts, less so on the rump. The sides 

 of the head and neck, and all the lower parts, rusty, except the 

 throat and upper part of neck, which are white. Primaries and 

 secondaries hair brown, with a fringe of rufous on each outer web, 

 shafts black. Lower wing coverts, which extend to nearly apex of 

 wing when closed, black brown with rufous border. Tail rufous 

 brown, darker towards distal end, with white apex; first primary very 

 short and abortive, second and fourth about equal, the third longest. 

 Legs and lower beak yellow, culmen and claws black; the female has 

 the colours less pronounced. The notes on the label, taken when the 

 bird was in the flesh, are — "June 10th., 1873. Dauria aqua. Length 

 one hundred and fifty millemetres, expanse of wings two hundred 

 and three millemetres, distance of apex of wing from end of tail 

 thirty-four millemetres. Iris, brown." 



The bird and egg figured are in my own collection. They were 

 taken in the Dauria by Dr. Dybowski. 



The bird has also been figured by Gould, and Dresser, B. of E. 



