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Acrocephalus agricola (Jerd.). 



Acrocephalus agricolus, Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 559 (1876). 

 Acrocephalus agricola, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 105 (1881) ; 



Oates, Fauna Brit. Inch, Birds, i. p. 359 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 



8f Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 229 (1889) ; Wilson, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 



Soe. xii. p. 635 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. iv. p. 189 (1903). 



The eggs of the Paddy-field Reed-Warbler are of a regular oval 

 form and moderately glossy. They are of a dull greenish-grey 

 colour, blotched all over with greenish brown and pale grey, and 

 with a few blackish specks at the broader end. They are hardly 

 separable from some of the eggs of A. streperus. They measure 

 from '65 to -68 in length, and from *5 to *52 in breadth. 



5. Kirghiz Steppes, July (Henke). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Turkestan (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Acrocephalus bseticatus ( Vieitt.). 



Calamoherpe rufescens, Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 291. 



Acrocephalus breticatus, Sharpe, ed. Bayard's Birds S. Africa, p. 290 

 (1875-84); Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 106 (1881) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; Stark $• Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, 

 Birds, ii. p. 91 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 189 (1903). 



The eggs of the South-African Reed-Warbler resemble those o 

 A. streperus. They measure from - 68 to "73 in length, and from 

 •48 to -54 in breadth. 



2. South Africa. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, 5th Dec. Seebohm Coll. 



(T. Ayres). 

 10. Potchefstroom (T. A. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 

 Coll.). 



2. East Africa, 12th Feb. Crowley Bequest. 



Acrocephalus syrinx (Kittl.). 



(Plate IX. figs. 6 & 7.) 



Acrocephalus syrinx, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 100 (1881) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 189 

 (1903). 



The eggs of Kittlitz's Great Reed- Warbler only differ from 

 those of A. turdoides in having the ground-colour greyish white. 

 Three examples measure respectively : -88 by -6 ; *86 by -62 ; 

 •83 by "6. 



1. Caroline Islands. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Ruk Island, Caroline Group, Crowley Bequest. 



19th May {.Tring Mus.). 



