106 TUEDID^. 



Salicaria moclesta, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 129 (1873) ; 



Severtz. Stray Feath. 1875, p. 426 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 88. 

 Salicaria gracilis, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 66, 130 (1873) ; Severtz. 



Stray Feath. 1875, p. 426 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 86. 



The general colour of the upper parts varies from i-usset-brown 

 in spring to almost an earthy brown in summer, becomiug still 

 more rufous after the autumn moult ; eye-stripe ver)' narrow, aud 

 becoming very obscure behind the eye ; wing-coverts, innermost 

 secondaries, quills, and tail-feathers browner, edged on the outside 

 webs with the same colour as the back ; quills and tail-feathers 

 whou fresh-moulted with narrow pale edges at and near the tips, 

 which are soon lost by abrasion. In spring the underparts are 

 pale buflP, darkest on the breast, flanks, and thighs ; on the three 

 latter parts some buff is always retained, but the rest of the uiider- 

 parts fade in summer to nearly pure white ; after the autumn 

 moult the buif of the underparts is richer and purer in colour 

 than in spring. Bill almost as slender as in FlujlJoscopus ; upper 

 mandible dark, under maudible pale, darker towai'ds the tip ; 

 rictal bristles moderately developed. Legs, feet, and claws pale 

 horn-colour. Length of wing 2-35 to 2-0 inches, tail about the 

 same, culmen 0'5o to 0"52. Fourth primar)' longest ; second pri- 

 mary equal to the seventh, sometimes a trifle shorter, sometimes 

 a trifle longer ; bastard primary slightly longer than in typical 

 Acrocephnlas, in adult birds as long as the primary-coverts, in 

 birds of the year projecting 0-15 inch beyond them. 



The most characteristic features of this species are its small bill 

 and long tail. 



Jerdon's Reed-Warbler breeds in the valley of the Lower Volga, 

 extending its range eastwards in the Pahearctic llegion at least as 

 far as Turkestan, and probably as far as China. It also breeds in 

 the Himalayas from Cashmere to Nepal, and winters in the plains 

 of India. 



a. Ad. sk. Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



(Tvpe of Acrocepha^us aqricala, Jerdon.) 

 h. Ad. sk. Nepal. ' B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.J. 



(Type of No. 903 Hodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. Mus.) of Birds 

 of Nejial, Pas.«eres, App. pi. 38.) 

 c. Ad. sk. Pusliut, Afghanistan India Museum. 



^Griffith). * 



15. Acrocephalus haBticatus. 



L'lsabelle, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. 121. fig. 2 (1802). 

 Sylvia bajticata, Vieill. N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. xi. p. 195 (1817). 

 Salicaria rufescens, Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. liv (1840). 

 Calamodyta bajticula, Vieill. ,Jide Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848). 

 Calamodyta rufescens {Keys. u. Bias.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848); 



Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 97 (1867) ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 207. no. 



2929 (1869). 

 Calamoherpe rufescens (Keys. u. Bias.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 286 (1850); 



Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 28 (1859) ; Atjres, Ibis, 1869, p. 291. 



