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toes. Upper parts olive-brown. Region of the eye, curve of 

 wing, and tibiae buff-ochre. Under parts pale ochreous with a 

 tinge of primrose-yellow. Wings and tail light hair-brown ; the 

 feathers of the former margined with olive-tinged yellowish 

 brown on the coverts, and reddish on the quills ; those of the 

 latter indistinctly varied with a darkish shade. 



" Your Drymoica is nearly affine to the common D. fusca of 

 Bengal, Nepal, &c., represented by DAnornata in Southern India; 

 but has a conspicuously longer tail, is more decidedly rufescent 

 on the lower parts and around the eye; and the crown is di- 

 stinctly striated, in which last respect it approximates to the 

 Cw/2co/^."— Blyth. 



29. CiSTICOLA TINTINNABULANS, n. Sp. 



This bird is of very rare occurrence in Amoy, but is frequent 

 near Shanghai and in Formosa. I have described it as Calaman- 

 thella tintinnabulans in the 2nd vol. of the Journal of the North 

 China Branch of the Asiatic Society. It jerks itself about high 

 in the air while uttering its strange tinkling note. 



30. ACROCEPHALUS MAGNIROSTRIS, n. Sp. 



This bird abounds from Amoy to Shanghai in all reed-covered 

 places, and has a powerful musical voice. I take it to be the same 

 bird as that described in the ' Fauna Japonica' as Salicaria Turdus 

 orientalis. Mr. Blyth says : '^ Of your Acrocephalus it may be 

 remarked that (like the two figured in Gould's 'Birds of Australia') 

 it helps to fill up the gap between the large and small species of 

 Euroi)e and India respectively ; and that it is remarkable for the 

 great, disproportionate size of the bill, which equals that of the 

 European A. arundinaceus (Linn.), or of the Indian A. brunnes- 

 cens (Jerd.), both of v/hich are much larger birds." Length 7*2 ; 

 wing 3-1 ; tail 3, graduated; bill -8, to gape 1-1. Upper parts 

 sienna or yellowish brown; wings brown, margined with the 

 same ; tail do. and tipped with yellowish grey ; eye-streak and 

 throat yellowish white. Under parts sienna yellow, with more 

 or less white. 



31. Acrocephalus bistrigiceps, n. sp. 



This is a much rarer bird than the foregoing, and may have 



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