culmeu 0'95 to 0-8. Third primary longest ; second primary fre- 

 quently intermediate in length between the third and fourth, and 

 as olten between the fouith and fifth. 



This is the Eastern form of A. turdoides, differing from that 

 species in its smaller size, slightly more rounded wing, and darker 

 legs. Birds of the year have indistinct dark streaks on the throat, 

 and pale tips to the tail-feathers. 



The Chinese Great Eecd-Warbler breeds in the valley of the 

 Amoor, in North China, and Japan. It passes through South China 

 on migration, and winters in the islands of the Malay archipelago 

 and the Eurma peninsula, having been found as far west as Pegu 

 and the S. Andaman Islands, and as far south as Lombock. 



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7. AcroceplialTis stentoreus. 



Curruca stentorea, Hempr. et Ehr. Si/7)ib. Phys., Aves, fol. bb 



(1833). 

 Agrobates brunnescens, Jerd. Much: Jotmi. x. p. 269 (1839). 

 Malacocercus ? abnornis, Hodijs. MS. Drmui7ic/s (m the Biit. Mus.) 



of B. of Nepal, Passei-es, pi. 54. no. 816, tmdh 

 Malacocercus? aboniis, Hoclys., Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83. no. 816 (1844). 

 Calamoherpe brunnescens (Jerd.), Blytli, J. A. S. Beny. xv. p. 218 



(1846) ; Bp. ConsiJ. i. p. 285 (1850). 

 Acrocephalus brunnescens {Jei-d.), Bhjih, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 181 (1849) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 331 



(1854) ; Jerd. B. Bid. ii. p. 154 (1863) ; JIu7>ie ^ Hevders. Lahore 



to York. p. 214, pi. xvi. (1873). 

 Calamoherpe longirostris, v. Midi. Naum. 1851, iv. p. 27. 

 Calamoherpe macrorhyncha, v. Midi. Beitr. Or9i. Afr. t. 9 (1853). 

 Acrocephalus stentoreus {^Ilcmiir. et Ehr.), Cab. journ. Orn. 1854, 



