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ag Schrenk's Reed Warbler, bufc lacks 

 fehe double eyebrow, and is rarely 

 found away from fche water. 



CHINESE BUSH WARBLER. 



HORORNIS CANTURIANS, (sWIn). 



(Oettia canturians (Sw.)) 

 Description. — Length male six and 

 one half inches. Female five and one 

 half inches. 



Bill brown, paler on the lower 

 mandible. Tarsus brownish flesh color. 

 Iris hazel. 



Male. — Olive brown above, with a 

 reddish cast in winter. Tawny below, 

 sides of the breast brownish, chin, 

 throat, and abdomen, white. Broad 

 rather indistinct yellowish white eye- 

 brow. Lores and a band behind the 

 eye dusky. 



Female. — Similar to the male but 

 considerably smaller in size, with the 

 dark line behind the eye indistinct, and 

 more reddish borders to the tail 

 feathers. 



For a long time the female was re- 

 garded as a separate species on account 

 of the rather remarkable difference in 

 the size of the two sexes. It was 

 known as Horornis minuta, until the 

 error was pointed out by Mr. J. D. La 

 Touche in 1906. 



Distribution. — China, Formosa, 

 Hainan, and India. Resident in the 

 Yangtse Valley, which is the northern 

 limit of its winter quarters. It is 

 quite scarce here in the winter, but 

 more abundant in summer. 



Nest and Eggs. — This Warbler 

 builds a domed nest with an entrance 



