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MR. G. I-J. CATON HAIGH ON RADDE’S BUSH WARBLER. 
XIV. 
RADDE’S BUSH WARBLER ( LUSCINIOLA SCHWARZI) 
IN LINCOLNSHIRE. 
By G. H. Caton Haigh. 
Read 31st January , 1899. 
The occurrence of Lusciniola schwarzi at North Cotes in Lincolnshire, 
on October 1st last, adds a species not only to the British but also 
to the European avi-fauna. 
The bird in question was skulking in a very thick Thorn hedge, 
about a quarter of a mile inland from the sea bank, and would 
certainly have been passed over but for its exceedingly loud and 
remarkable note. This note, which somewhat resembled the scold 
of the Reed Warbler, was uttered incessantly whenever the bird 
was disturbed. Though the hedge in which it was hiding was 
by no means a large one, my gamekeeper had great difficulty in 
forcing it to take wing, and it moved rapidly along the interior 
of the hedge for a considerable distance before doing so. 
The following description was taken from the bird in the flesh. 
Colour of upper parts, dark olive green. Large and very conspicuous 
eye stripe, pale buff. A dark brown patch behind the eye. Cheeks, 
mottled brown and buff. Throat, nearly white ; breast, belly, and 
axillaries washed with yellowish buff ; thighs and under tail-coverts, 
bright buff. Beak, brown above, but under mandible yellow nearly 
to the point; inside of mouth, yellow; eyes, brown. Legs, pale 
brownish flesh colour, length 5.3 ; wing, 2.5. Bastard primary very 
long ; second nearly equal to eighth, fifth longest. 
The weather was fine and hot, with light S.W. wind. On 
September 29th the wind was light S.E., with some rain at night. 
On 30th it was fine, with a fresh E. wind. The prevailing winds 
throughout September were light E. and S.E., with line, hot 
weather. These being exactly the conditions which the late 
