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(J. f. O. 1855, p. 199) that it undoubtedly occurs in Egypt; but as he gives no instance of its ever 

 having been obtained there, and I can find no other notice of its having been procured by the 

 various naturalists who have collected in Egypt, I certainly doubt the truth of this statement. 

 Severtzoff met with it in Turkestan, where, he writes (Turkestanskie Jevotnie, p. 66), it inhabits 

 the northern portions of that country, and breeds in the mountains of Karatau, at an altitude of 

 from 6000 to 8500 feet. He does not, however, give any notes on its nidification. Both 

 Dr. Radde and Dr. Dybowski met with it in Eastern Siberia. The former gentleman writes 

 (I. c.) that it occurs at Orenburg, in the Stanovoi Mountains, at Wilui, and in Mongolia. He 

 first observed it at Tarei-nor about the 21st May ; and during the autumn passage he again 

 obtained it, on the 16th August, when it was tolerably numerous, and most generally met with 

 at some freshwater pools near the village of Kulussutajeffsk. Dr. Dybowski, who says that it is 

 not common either near Kultuk or in Darasun, states that it arrives about the middle of June, 

 and remains there to breed. In the winter season it is met with in Japan and China, and has 

 been obtained as far south as the Andaman islands. Professor Cassin's Lusciniopsis hendersoni, 

 founded on a specimen obtained at Hakodadi, in Japan, is undoubtedly referable to the present 

 species, as a perusal of his description at once shows. Mr. Swinhoe records it (P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 355) from Amoy, Canton, and, according to Pere David, from Pekin. It was obtained on the 

 Andamans, in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, Port Blair, by Mr. Davison, who writes (Stray 

 Feathers, i. p. 409), " I found this little Locustella frequenting the same places as Cy anemia 

 ccerulecula, Pall., viz. the dense scrubby weed growing about the dried-up paddy-fields ; I also, 

 on two occasions, saw it in a garden, in a patch of beans ; and once I flushed it from a patch of 

 sugar-cane. It is an awful little skulk, and will let itself be almost trodden upon before it will 

 rise. It makes its way rapidly through the tangled weeds, and runs along the ground in a truly 

 surprising manner ; in walking through the weeds I have on several occasions seen this little 

 bird start up and run rapidly along the ground. I am unable to say whether it is a permanent 

 resident at the Andamans or not ; I only met with it for the first time soon after my return to 

 Port Blair from the Nicobars." It was also obtained in the Andamans by Lieut. R. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay in April, as recorded by Lord Walden (Ibis, 1874, p. 139). 



Respecting the habits and nidification of this species I find scarcely any thing on record. 

 It bears considerable affinity to our common Grasshopper Warbler, and, like that species, most 

 frequently inhabits marshy localities where there is plenty of underwood, and consequently good 

 shelter. I have never seen its nest or eggs, though some have, I believe, been sent to Europe 

 by Dr. Dybowski, who, according to Mr. Taczanowski (J. f. O. 1872, p. 356), says that in Darasun 

 it breeds in damp meadows, amongst the high grass or under low bushes, and that its eggs 

 resemble those of our common Grasshopper Warbler, but are somewhat smaller in size. 



The specimen figured, on the same Plate with Locustella fluviatilis, is an adult male from 

 the southern portion of Lake Baikal, and is in my collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



