40 TEMMINCK'S L0GU8TELLE. 



INSECTIVOILE. 



Family SYLVIIDJE. 



Genus Locustella. ( Kaup.J 



TEMMINCK'S LOCUSTELLE. 



Locustella lanceolata. 



Sylvia lanceolata, Temminck; Man., vol. iii., p. 614. 



Salicaria lanceolata, Schlegel. 



Cysticola lanceolata, Degland. 



Locustella minuta, Swinhoe. 



subsignata, Hume; Stray Feathers, No. 5, p. 409. 



Bee-fin Lanceolata, Of the French. 



Gestrichelter Rohrscinger, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Beak short and thick; tail rather long and very 

 conical; all inferior parts, except the middle of the abdomen, covered with 

 long lanceolated spots. — (Temminck.) Length four inches and one fifth; 

 wing two inches; upper beak two fifths of an inch; tarsus three tenths of 

 an inch; tail one inch and a half. From a specimen in the collection 

 of Canon Tristram, marked "Amoy, 1 8th. May, 1861, R. Swinhoe." 



This Warbler was first described by Temminck, in the third volume 

 of the "Manual/' p. 614, and in respect to the memory of that great 

 ornithologist I attach his name to its English designation. 



Doubts were thrown by Malherbe over the authenticity of the 

 specimen, said to have been killed near Mayence, upon which Tem- 

 minck introduced it into the European fauna, as well as upon the 

 specimen in the collection of the Marquis Durazzo, said to have 

 been killed near Genes. There is no doubt, however, from specimens 

 in the Leyden Museum, that this bird is found in South-eastern 

 Russia, and would probably be more frequently captured were it not 



