LOCUSTELLA STRAMINEA. 



(EASTERN GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER.) 



Locustella certliiola (nee Pall.), Jerdon, B. of India, ii. p. 159 (1863). 

 Acridiornis straminea, Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotn. p. 06 (1873). 

 Locustella hendersoni (nee Cass.), Dresser, B. of Eur. ii. p. 614 (1874). 

 Locustella lanceolata (nee Temm.), Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 90. 

 Locustella straminea (Severtzoff), Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 276. 



Figura nulla. 



Ad. L. navice similis, sed minor : corpore supra magis olivascente tincto, et magis fusco notato : pileo et 

 uropygio magis notatis : corpore subths albo, pectore et hypochondriis cervino lavatis : remige secunda, 

 longitudine inter 5 m et 6 m , tertia longissima. 



Adult (Ekaterinburg, June 20tb) . Resembles L. ncevia, but the ground- colour of the upper parts is paler 

 and more olivaceous in tint, and the dark markings clearer and more pronounced, especially on the 

 head and rump ; underparts white, washed with buff on the breast and flanks : bill horn-brown, 

 yellowish at base; legs dull yellowish flesh; iris brown. Total length about 4"5 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 2'15, tail P95, tarsus 0-82; first primary about as long as the wing-coverts, second intermediate 

 between the fifth and sixth, the third longest. 



Young (Orenburg, May 26th) . Differs from the adult in having the upper parts much more boldly marked, 

 the margins to the feathers being narrower and paler; throat spotted with blackish brown. 



The sexes do not differ in plumage, and the winter dress scarcely differs from that worn in the spring, the 

 only difference being that the upper parts are rather duller in tint. 



The present species, which is the Eastern representative of our Grasshopper- Warbler, ranges 

 from the Ural Mountains through Turkestan to the Pamirs, and south into India, breeding in 

 the Ural, Transcaspia, and Turkestan, and wintering in India. 



According to Zarudny {fide Pleske, Orn. Eoss. ii. p. 613) both the eastern and western 

 forms are found at Orenburg, but Locustella straminea largely predominates, Locustella ncevia 

 being comparatively rare. He met with it in the valleys on the central portion of the Ural 

 Eiver, on the lower portion of the Ilek and Tschingurlan, as also on the Tschagan and Lower 

 Sakmara, where it was not uncommon. It is rather difficult to determine to which of the two 

 forms the various records from different portions of Eussia refer, but, according to Mr. Pleske, all 

 the specimens obtained by Messrs. Lorenz and Bossikoff in the Caucasus belong to Locustella 

 straminea. Mr. Bossikoff obtained it at the Stanitza Frochladnaja, and Mr. Lorenz collected a 

 large number in the vicinity of Kislovodsk, on the Podkumok and the Dshutza, and in the 



