78 SYLVIIDJ^. 



Genus LUSCINIOLA G. R. Gray, List Gen. Birds, 2nd ed. 

 1841, p. 28. 

 Type : L. melanopogon (Temm.). 



Lusciniola, diminutive of Iniscinia, q. v. (p. 95). 



Lusciniola schwarzi. Radde's Bush-Wakbler. 



Sylvia schwarzi Radde, Reisen Siiden von Ost-Siberien, 

 ii. 1863, p. 260, pi. ix. : S.E. Siberia. 



Lusciniola schwarzi (Maclde) ; SeeboJim, Cat. Sirds S. M. v. 1881, 

 p. 128 ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 73 *. 



Schwarzi, so called after the Russian Astronomer Schwartz, who was the 

 leader of Badde's expedition to S.E. Siberia. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. 

 Has occurred once in England : on the Lincolnshire coast, 

 Oct. 1898. 



General Distribution. — Radde's Bush- Warbler breeds in 

 eastern Siberia, from the south of Lake Baikal to Saghalien. 

 It winters in southern China and Burma, as far south as 

 Tenasserim. 



Genus HYPOLAIS C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1283. 

 Type: H. icteriiia (Vieillot). 



Hypolais = vTro\ais, a bird mentioned by Aristotle {Hist. An, vi. 7. 5), 

 probably so called from its creeping under stones. Linnaeus wi'ote Hippolaia 

 by mistake (c/. Newton's ed. Tarrell, Brit. Birds, i. p. 427). 



Hypolais icterina. Icteeine Waebler. 



Sylvia icterina Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 1817, 

 p 194 : France. 



Hypolais icterina {Vieill.) ; Seebohm, Gat. Birds H. M. v. 

 1881, p. 77 ; £. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 17 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 75, 



