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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Pallas^s Grasshopper-Warbler occurs in the cold weather in Pegu, 
about Kyeikpadein and the banks of the Pegu Canal, but probably in 
many other places as well, and probably also in Arrakan and Tenasserim. 
It is found in winter in India and Ceylon, China and the Malay archi- 
pelago, and probably in the Indo-Burmese countries, for Col. Godwin- 
Austen procured it in the Khasia hills. Occasionally it straggles into 
Europe. In summer it is found in Siberia, and Mr. Seebohm found it 
breeding at Yen-e-saisk in swampy thickets near the banks of the river. 
This Warbler is very shy and is never by any chance seen except by 
accident. It swarms in inundated paddy-fields to an incredible extent. 
I have procured it from the 1 8th of October to the 16th of December. 
At this latter date the paddy-harvest begins, and the bird disappears 
entirely. Unlike L. lanceolata it does not appear to go into grass at all. 
It frequents those fields in which the paddy is very high and thick and 
ground very swampy. It rises at one^s feet and settles again at once, 
affording only a snap shot at about two yards distance. 
Dr. Dybowski states that it makes its nest in a tuft of grass close to the 
ground, and lays five or six eggs which are rosy white speckled with 
reddish brown. 
105. LOCUSTELLA LANCEOLATA. 
THE STREAKED GRASS HOPPER- WARBLER. 
Sylvia lanceolata, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 614. Locustella lanceolata, 
Wald. Ibis, 1874, p. 139 ; id. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 121 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. 
p. 617, pi. ; Daoid et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 251 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 339 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 100 ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. Mus. v. p. 118 ; Oates, 8. F. x, 
p. 215. Lusciniopsis hendersonii, Cass, in Proc. Phil. Ac. Sc. 1858, p. 194. 
Locustella minuta, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 93. Locustella macropus, 
Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 93. Locustella subsignata, Hume, S. F. i. p. 409. 
Description. — Male and female. Whole upper plumage russet-brown, 
each feather with a distinct dark- brown central streak. Quills brown, the 
primaries and secondaries edged with russet-brown on the outer webs, the 
tertiaries edged with the same on both webs ; tail brown, obsoletely edged 
paler, and the shafts viewed from below white ; ear-coverts hair-brown ; 
sides of the head streaked with russet- and dark brown; chin, upper 
throat and centre of the abdomen spotless, pale ochraceous white ; the 
remainder of the under plumage darker ochraceous, streaked with blackish 
brown ; under tail-coverts sometimes streakless, more frequently largely 
streaked with blackish brown; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 
vinaceous. 
The streaks on the lower surface become reduced in what I take to be 
