Rare winter visitor in kerala. medium sized warblers with olive grey- brown above and Buffy yellow below, black streaks on the back and small dark spots on the throat and breast. Identied from similar looking warblers by black streaks on the back, olive brown rump and faint supercilum. Voice is a prolonged insect like reeling trill. Habitat: damp grassy thickets, hearths, shrubby Habitat near waterbodies.