THE STREAKED GRASSHOPPER- WARBLER. 105 
aged birds. The bird least marked in my series has a few streaks only on 
the centre of the breast and on the flanks^ with one or two faint marks on 
the under tail-coverts. In this state it is very like the Indian L. hen- 
dersoni. The majority of the birds are densely streaked from the chin to 
the tail-coverts, except on the abdomen, and all these are characterized by 
a richer tone of colouring beneath. 
The tail-coverts vary in the most extraordinary manner. In many of 
the birds they are entirely unmarked; in others densely streaked, and 
this follows no rule viewing it in connexion with the amount of streaking 
on the other parts of the lower plumage. I can make no deductions of 
value from the examination of my large series. We require authenticated 
birds of the year and old birds shot off the nest before any thing can be 
made out for certain. 
Taking these variations into consideration, I have no doubt that 
L. macropus and L. minuta represent the same species as L. lanceolata. 
Legs fleshy white ; claws pale horn-colour ; upper mandible dark brown, 
lower one yellow at base, brown at tip ; iris brown. 
Length 5*2 inches, tail 1*8^ wing 2'1, tarsus '75, bill from gape '6 : 
the second primary is generally equal to the fourth ; the first primary is 
small, measuring about '4 or '5 inch in length. The female is about the 
same size as the male. 
The Streaked Grasshopper-Warbler is common in the cold weather at 
Kyeikpadein in Pegu. I procured it abundantly from the 19th of 
October to the 28th of February, after which date none were to be found. 
Mr. Davison procured it at various places in Tenasserim quite down to 
the extreme southern portion of the Division. 
In winter it has been found in the Andaman Islands. It is difiused 
over China, and will probably be found in the Indo-Burmese countries, 
the Siamese peninsula and the Malay archipelago. In summer it is found 
throughout Siberia, and it ranges westwards to St. Petersburg. 
This Warbler on first arrival goes into the growing paddy, and when 
this is cut it remains in the stubble until this is burnt or trodden down 
by cattle. When this stubble ceases to afliord it protection it betakes 
itself to grass, where it stays in the thickest clumps. As long as the 
paddy-fields are wet it feeds from stalk to stalk, but when the ground gets 
dry it seems to feed habitually on the ground, running about amongst the 
roots of the herbage and rice. It is a very difficult bird to procure, 
concealing itself closely and uttering no note by which its presence can be 
detected. 
