Radde's Bush-Warbler. 2 ^ 



RECENT ADDITIONS. 



Family- S YL VIIDAL. Subfamily— S YL VIINsE. 



Radde's Bush-Warbler. 



Lusciniola sihvcarzi (Radde). 



A SINGLE specimen of this Asiatic Warbler was shot on the Lincolnshire 

 coast, on October ist, 1898, by Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh. The summer 

 home of this Warbler is found in Siberia and Northern China ; it winters in 

 Southern China and Burma. It was first described and figured by Radde ("Reisen 

 Von Ost-Siberien," pp. 261-263. Taf. IX.). Radde's Bush- Warbler has the upper 

 parts dusky olive-brown, with a bufiy-white eye-stripe ; underparts yellowish- 

 white. Total length, about 5*6 inches; wing, 2^45 inches. The second primary 

 is equal to the eighth, or intermediate between the seventh and eighth ; the first 

 primary is very long. The bill is short and thick, and wide at the base, much 

 stouter than in any Willow- Wren ( Phylloscopus) . Colour of bill, horn-colour, the 

 base, fleshy-white; legs and feet, fleshy-yellow; claws, brown, (cf. Oates, "Fauna 

 of British India, Birds," Vol. I., p. 399; "Brit. Mus. Cat." Vol. V. pp. 128-129). 



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