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BIRDS OF BRITISH BIJRMAH, 
The Silky Reed-Warbler has been found in the neighbourhood of 
Kyeikpadein in Pegu, and along the banks of the Pegu river, near the 
canal lock. In the collection o£ Mr. Seebohm there is an adult specimen 
which was procured in the Bhootan Doars. 
This species is found in precisely the same localities as L. lanceolata. 
On first arrival it is found only in the growing paddy, then in the stubble, 
and later on in thickets of grass. It moves about very quicklyj and flies 
up at one^s feet and settles down again in the vegetation at once. Towards 
evening I found it restless and more disposed to come into view, and con- 
sequently easier to shoot. I procured them from November to the middle 
of February. 
Genus LOCUSTELLA, Kau^. 
104. LOCUSTELLA CERTHIOLA. 
PALLAS'S GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. 
Motacilla certhiola, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. i. p. 509. Locustella rubescens, 
Bl. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 582 ; Jer± B. Ind. ii. p. 160. Locustella temporalis, 
Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p, 160. Calamodyta dorise, Salvad. Atti B. Ac. Sc. Tor. iii. 
p. 531 j id. Ucc. Born. p. 250 ; Sharpe, Ihis, 1876, p. .41, pi. ii. fig. 2. Locus- 
tella certliiola, Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 633, pi. ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, 
p. 248 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 548 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 100 ; Seehohm, Cat. 
Birds B. Mtis. v. p. 1 14 ; Gates, S. F. x. p. 216. Locustella minor, David et 
Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 250. 
Description. — Male and female. The young bird up to October has the 
whole upper plumage, including the coverts and tertiaries, blackish brown ; 
the feathers of the head narrowly, and all the others broadly margined 
with reddish brown ; rectrices chiefly blackish brown, irregularly 
margined with rufous-brown, and very broadly terminated with whitish. 
The lower plumage is buff, pale on the throat and upper breast, dark on 
the breast, and increasing in depth of colour down to the tail- coverts ; the 
throat and breast are closely spotted with triangular blackish-brown 
marks ; stripe over the eye, and a streak from the bill under the cheeks 
and ear-coverts yellowish buff; ear-coverts hair-brown; under wing- 
coverts whitish; primaries and secondaries dark brown, narrowly edged 
with reddish brown. 
Birds in this plumage are undoubtedly nestlings. But they differ from 
what Mr. Seebohm says of this stage by not being yellowish below to 
such an extent as his description implies or Mr. Dresser's plate shows it 
to be. In the latter also the spots on the throat and breast are hardly 
