290 MR. H. E. DRESSER ON PALLAS’S WILLOW WARBLER. 
in length between the sixth and seventh, third and fourth nearly 
equal, and these two are the longest ; tail much rounded. 
Locustella certhiola is a Grasshopper Warbler, but differs greatly 
from our Common Grasshopper Warbler. It has the crown and 
nape blackish brown, striped with buffy grey ; back and wing-coverts 
warm ochreous brown broadly blotched with blackish brown, most 
of the feathers being blackish brown edged with ochreous brown ; 
rump, dull reddish ochreous brown, with a few obsolete markings, 
darkening on the upper tail-coverts ; wings and tail brown with 
lighter margins, the tail much rounded, darkening towards the tip, 
and tipped with dull greyish white ; primaries margined with 
reddish buff, the secondaries and larger wing-coverts more broadly 
margined with buffy white ; sides of the head and neck pale 
greyish brown ; a distinct greyish white stripe passes from the base 
of the bill over the eye ; chin and throat pure white ; breast pale 
buff; flanks and under tail-coverts warm buff, the latter tipped 
with white ; middle of abdomen pure white ; total length about 
5.25 inches, wing 2.8 inches. 
Note. — The accompanying figure is from the specimen here described, 
now in the collection of Mr. Connop, and is reproduced with the kind 
permission of Lord Lilford, from the “ Colox-ed Figures of the Birds of 
the British Islands,” at the expense of Mr. J. IT. Gurney, who is good 
enough to present the plate to the Society’s £ Transactions.’ — Ed. 
