570 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



o*. Much smaller; wing, about 60 mm.; a blackish stripe on each side of crown. 



sorghophilus ( p. 570 ) 

 «*. Much larger ; wing, about 90 mm. ; no blackish stripes on the crown. 



orientalis {p. 571) 



551. ACROCEPHALUS SORGHOPHILUS (Swinhoe). 

 LITTLE REED WARBLER. 



Calamodyta sorghophila Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863), 92 and 293. 



Acrocephalits sorgophilus Seeboiim, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 94; 

 Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 187; McGregor and Worcester, Hand- 

 List (1906), 87. 



Luzon (McGregor) . China. 



Male. — Above tawny olive, uniform and more ocherons on rump and 

 tail-coverts; head and back distinctly streaked with dark brown; lores, 

 sides of head, and a line above each eye yellow-bufp; on each side of crown 

 a long blackish stripe bordering the superciliary line below; a dark line 

 on upper border of ear-coverts; under parts pale buff, flanks and thighs 

 darker; wings and tail brown and much worn. Kectrices twelve; iris 

 daik brown. Wing, 55 ; tail, 49 ; culmen from base, 15 ; bill from nostril, 

 8; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 18; hind toe wdth claw, 14. Bill 

 comparatively broad and flat. 



The specimen described above was killed in a bed of reeds on t4ie 

 border of Laguna de Bay, January 19, 1902. The only other specimen 

 known was taken near Amoy, China, in May, 1861. The original 

 description follows : 



Type. — "Upper mandible of bill blackish brown, edge of upper and 

 whole of lower yellow-ocher ; rictus and inside of mouth yellow; iris 

 och?rous brown; legs and toes plumbeous, with paler soles; upper parts 

 ochorous olive, with a few rather faint streaks of blackish brown; eye- 

 brow and cheeks ocherous, more buil-colored on the lores; over the eye- 

 brow a black streak marks each side of the head; under parts yellowish 

 buff, much paler on the throat, under neck, and center of belly; wing- 

 coverts and tertiaries deep hair-brown, margined with ocherous olive; 

 quills hair-brown edged with light chestnut-brown; tail pale hair-brown 

 margined with reddish olive which color also tinges the rump; inner 

 edges of the under wing edged with very pale rusty ocher. Length, 

 116.8; wing, 56.6; tail, 47.7; tarsi, 17.7; bill along culmen, 10.6. 



"First quill very small, narrow, and pointed, about 8.6 mm. long; 

 second quill 7 mm. shorter than the third and fourth, which are equal 

 and longest, the fifth quill 3.8 mm. shorter than the third and fourth; 

 the sixth 5.5 mm. shorter than the fifth. Tail much graduated, the 

 rectrices being narrowed at their tips; tarsi thick; toes and claws strong, 

 the hind toe and claw especially so." (Swinhoe.) 



