*GRAY’S GRASSHOPPER WARBLER Locustella fasciolata #

Range Biak, Supiori, Owi, Yapen.

Status Palearctic migrant. Widespread Palearctic migrant throughout Wallacea (Coates & Bishop 1997) and western New Guinea (Beehler & Pratt 2016) . King (1979) collected a male in secondary woodland in southern Biak, in December 1962. KDB & JD found it common during October‒April. Several were recorded at c. 100 m intervals in low scrub along most roads in southern Biak. 13 and 15 January 1997: one heard singing and calling near Sansundi (SvB). Recorded on Owi in February 1991 (Gibbs 1993) and on 13 January 1994 (P. Gregory in litt. 2000).