ACROCEPHALUS. 



185 



Acrocephalus streperus ( Vieill.). 



(Plate YITI. fig. 20.) 



Sylvia arundinacea, Thien. Forfpjlanz. ges. Viig. p. 191, tab. xxi. fig. 7, 



<?,e,/ (184.5-54). 

 Calamoherpe arundinacea, Baedeker, JEier Eur. Vog. tab. 19. fig. 11 



(1855-63) ; Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 215. 

 Calamoherpe pinetarum, Baedeker, torn. cit. tab. 19. fig. 12. 

 Calamoherpe hydrophilos, Baedeker, torn. cit. tab. 19. fig. 1.3. 

 Calamoherpe arbustorum, Baedeker, torn. cit. tab. 19. fig. 14. 

 Salicaria strepera, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 119, pi. xxxii. 



figs, i, ii (1856). 

 Acrocephalus streperus, Bresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 567 (1877) ; Seebohm, 



Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 102 (1881); Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. 188 



(1903). 

 Acrocephalus arundinaceus, Seebohm, Brit. Bii-ds, i. p. 367, pi. 10 (1883) ; 



id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 197, pi. 52. fig. 8 (1896). 



The eggs of the Eeed-Warbler are of a decidedly-pointed oval 

 form, and they exhibit little gloss. The ground-colour varies from 

 greyish white to a very pale green, and is densely mottled and 

 blotched with greenish brown and underlying pale lavender or 

 greenish grey. The markings are more or less confluent all over 

 the shell, and at the larger end they usually form a dense cap. 

 Some specimens are less densely marked than others, and occa- 

 sionally the blotches are fairly well-defined and distinct. Many 

 examples have a few blackish lines or dots at the larger end. Four 

 eggs, forming a clutch taken in Norfolk, are white, smudged with 

 pale grey. Specimens measure from "65 to '8 in length, and from 

 •51 to '56 in breadth. 



Tatton Park, Cheshire (F. Nichol- 

 son : Haryitt Coll.). 



Norfolk, 24th June {F. Norgate). 



Norfolk, 25th June {F. N.). 



Norfolk. 



Cambridgeshire. 



Cambridgeshire. 



Cambridgeshire. 



Ely, Cambridge, 9th June ( O. Salvin). 



Ely, 10th June (O. S.). 



Cambridge, 3rd June (O. S.). 



Cambridge, 3rd Jime (O. S.). 



Taplow, Berkshire, 24th May. 



Cookham, Berkshire, .Tune. 



Middlesex, 3rd June {E. Bidivell ^ 

 H. Seebohm). 



Middlesex, 3rd June {E. B. ^- H. S.). 



Middlesex, 3rd June {E. B. 8f H. S.). 



Middlesex, 3rd June [E. B. Sf H. S.). 



Staines. 



Faversham, Kent, June. 



Elbeuf, France (^Noury : Hargitt 

 Coll.). 



Elbeuf (Nourg : Hargitt Coll.). 



Elbeuf {Nounj : Hargitt Coll.). 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 F. Bond, Esq. fP.'. 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.". 

 F. Bond, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Oodman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould CoD. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 H. Murton, Esq. [P.]. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



