SYLVIIN^. 73 



41. LOCUSTELLA OCHOTENSIS. 



(MIDDENDORFF'S GRASSHOPPER- WARBLER.) 



Sylvia (Locustella) ochotemis, Middendorff, Sibirische Eeise, ii. p. 185 (1853). 



Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler has uniform upper parts; 

 and the tail-feathers on the under surface become gradually nearly 

 black towards the apex, and are finally tipped with greyish white. 



Figures : Middendorff, Sibirische Reise, ii. pi. 16. fig. 7 (bird of 

 the year) ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1876, pi. 8. fig. 1 (young in first plumage). 



Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler probably breeds in the Kurile 

 Islands. I have an example collected by Wossnesensky on Urup 

 Island in 1844, and another sent me by Captain Blakiston from 

 Ishurup (an island between Urup and Yezzo), shot on the 28th of June. 

 There are four examples in the Pryer collection obtained by Mr. Snow 

 on the Kurile Islands ; and one (the type of Arundinax blakistoni) in 

 the Swinhoe collection (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1876, p. 332), a bird in first 

 plumage obtained at Hakodadi in October. The type of Locustella 

 subcerthiola (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 154) was also procured at 

 Hakodadi, but it is not in the Swinhoe collection ; it appears to have 

 been an adult bird of this species. A third example from Hakodadi 

 is iu the Philadelphia Museum (Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 275), and is 

 the type oi Lusciniopsis japonica (Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 

 1858, p. 193). 



Middendorff's Grasshopper- Warbler breeds in Eastern Siberia as 

 well as on the Kurile Islands, and passes along the coasts of China 

 and Japan, to winter in the islands of the Malay Archipelago. 



43. LOCUSTELLA LANCEOLATA. 



(TEMMINCK'S GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER .) 



Sylvia lanceolata, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 614 (1840). 



Temminck's Grasshopper- Warbler has clearly defined streaks on 

 the upper parts, but the tail-feathers are plain russet-browa, with no 

 markings on either the upper or the under surface. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, ii. pi. 92. fig. 2. 



Temminck's Grasshopper-Warbler is probably a rare visitor on 

 migration to all the Japanese Islands. It was originally discovered in 

 Japan, during the cruise of the ' Portsmouth,' by Dr. Henderson at 



