96 TTJRDin^. 



Vog. DeutscM. p. 441 (1831); Bp. Comp. list £. JEur. ^- N. Amer. 



p. 13 (1838) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 284 (1850) ; Jciub. et Barth.-Lapomm. 



Rich. Oni. p. 258 (1859); Newt. List B. Ear. Blasius, p. 11 



(18U2); De(jl. et Gerbe, Oni. Eur. i. p. 515 (18U7) ; Li.che, Expl. 



Sci. Alger.] Ois. i. p. 25G (18G7) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 124 



(1869). 

 Hydrucopsiclius turdoides (Meyer), Kaup, Naiiirl. Syst. p. 121 



\1829). 

 Aruudinaceus turdoides (Meyer), Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 419 (1831). 

 Calamolierpe lacustris (Naum.), Brehm, Vot/. Deutschl. p. 442 



(1831). 

 Calamolierpe stagnatilis, Brehm, Tog. Deutschl. p. 442 (1831). 

 Salicaria tuidoides (Meyer), Gould, B. Em: ii. pi. 10(J (1837); Keys. 



u. Bias. W.rb. Ew.yix liii. 181 (18-iO). 

 Acrocephalus aruudiuaceus (Linn.), Gray, List Gen. B. p. 28 (1841) ; 



Neiot. ed. Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 3(34 ( 1873) ; Blanford, East. Pers. 



ii. p. 195 (1871)) ; Gurney, Ibis, lb78, p. 288 ; Dresser, B. Eur. 



pt. Ixix. (1878). 

 Sylvia turdiEa, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 312 (1842). 

 Salicaria turdina (Gloger), Sch'eg. Bev. Crit. p. xxvii (1844); 



Linderm. I'bg. Gnechenl. p. 87 (^1860). 

 Calamodyta arundiDacea (Linn.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848) ; 



Graij] Hand-l. B. i. p. 207. no. 2917'(1869). 

 Calamolierpe media, Mam, (Efv. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1851, p. 159. 

 Calamoheipe tmdiua ( Gloger), SchUg. Vog. Nederl. p. 142 (1854). 

 Calamolierpe major, Brelnn, Naiim. 1855, p. 284. 

 Calamoherpe L ngirosli-is, Brehm, Kaum. 1855, p. 284. 

 Acioceplialus turdoides (Meyer), liengl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 289 



(1869): Saload. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 113 (1871), Shelley, B. Egypt, 



p. 96 (1872) ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. ii. pi. 72 (1873) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 



1879, p. 435. 

 Acrocephalus arabicus, Hcvgl. Orn. N.O.-Jfr. i. p. 289 (1809). 

 Calamodyta (Calamoherpe) turdoides (Meyer), Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 



p. 150 '(1870). 

 Salicaria aiundinacea (Linn.), Hurting, Handb. Br. B. p. 14 (1872). 

 Acrocephalus lulvolateralis, Sharpe, ed. Layurd's B. S. Afr. p. 289 



(1877). • 



The general colour of the upper parts is olive-broM'n -with a slight 

 shade of rufous, scarcely perceptilde on the head, quills, and tail- 

 feathers, and most pronounced on the rnmp and the margins of the 

 outside -welis of the quills and tail-feathers ; the eye-stripe is very- 

 obscure, huffish white, and does not extend as far as the nape. 

 When fresh moulted the quills and tail-ieathers have narrow pale 

 edges at and near the tips ; but these are soon lost by abrasion. 

 The wing-coverts and the innermost secondaries gradually become 

 paler towaids the edge on their outside webs ; the breast, flanks, 

 and under tail-coverts are pale rufous-brown, shading into nearly 

 white on the chin, throat, and centre of belly ; the axillaries, 

 thighs, and under wing-coverts and the inner margin of the quills are 

 pale huffish brown. The bill is typically Acrocejihaline ; the upper 

 mandible dark, the under mandible pale. The legs, feet, and claws 

 are pale horn-colour. Length of wing 3-85 to 3-6 inches, tail 3-5 to 

 3-0, culmen 0-9 to 0-8. Second primary equal, or ueaj-ly so, to the 

 third, which is the longest. 



