4. ACROCEPHALTJS. 105 



sptnng plumage to a faded olive-brown in summer, with a decidedly 

 fulvous tinge after the autumn moult ; eye-stripe nearly obsolete ; 

 wing-coverts and innermost secondaries very slightly browner, ex- 

 cept towards the edge of the feathers ; quills and tail-feathers a 

 shghtly darker brown, with narrow edges to the outside webs of 

 the same colour as the back ; quills and tail-feathers when fresh- 

 moulted with narrow pale edges at and near the tips, but these are 

 soon lost by abrasion ; the breast, flanks, and thighs are brownish 

 buif, shading into pale huffish white on the chin, throat, and centre 

 of bellj', axillaries, under wing-coverts, and the inner margin of the 

 quills. After the autumn moult the whole of the i;uderparts are 

 suffused with a pure delicate buff. The bill is Acrocephaline, the 

 upper mandible dark and the under mandible pale ; the rictal 

 bristles are very slightly developed. The legs, feet, and claws are 

 pale horn-colour. Length of wing 2-5 to 2-33 inches, tail 2-3 to 

 2'0, culmen 0*7 to 0-6. Third and fourth primaries nearly equal 

 and longest ; second primary always shorter than the fifth, 

 usually between the sixth and seventh, but occasionally shorter than 

 the seventh. 



Blyth's Reed-Warbler breeds in the Central Palsearctic Eegion, 

 from St. Petersburg eastwards at least as far as the valley of the 

 Yenesay. It also bneds in the Himalayas from Cashmere to Xepal, 

 wintering in India as far south as Ceylon. It does not appear to 

 have been observed in the Burma peninsula. 



a. (S ad. sk. Ekaterinburg {Sabandeff). H. E. Dresser, Esq. [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. N.W. India. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 d, e, f. Ad. sk. India. India Museum. 



y. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of No. 818 Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. Miis.) of 

 Birds of Nepal, Passeres, pi. 52.) 

 h, i. Ad. sk. Nepal (Ilodf/son). India Museum. 



k. Ad. sk. Beugal {A. S. lieng.). India Museum. 



/. Ad. sk. Deccan (Si/!;es). India Museum. 



m. (5 ad. sk. Mynall, Travaneore, Feb. 6, F. W. Bom-dillon, Esq. 



1880. [C.]. 



n. Ad. sk. Ceylon (C L. Laijard). H. Cuming, Esq. 



14. Acrocephalus agricola. 



Sylvia (Acrocephalus) agrieola, Jerd. Madras Journ. xiii. pt. 2, 



p. 131 (1844). 

 ?, Hodgs. MS. Dra^vinfs {in the Brit. Mm.) of B. of Nepal, 



Passeres, App. pi. 08. no. W>. 

 Calamoherpe agrieola (Jerd.), Bhjth, J. A. S.Beng. xiv. p. 695 (1845); 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 285 (1850). 

 Calamodyta agncola (Jerd.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848) ; Gray, 



Hand-'l. B. i. p. 207. no. 2921 (1869). 

 Acrocephalus agrieola (Jerd.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 182 



(1849) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 334 (1854); 



Jerdon, B. Lid. ii. p. 150 (18G3) ; Dresser, B. Bur. pt. liii. (1876). 

 Salicaria capistrata, Severtz. Turhest. Jevotn. pp. 60, 127 (1873) ; 



SeveHz. Stray Feath. 1875, p. 425 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 84. 



