96 BffiDS or EGYPT. 



Upper plumage olive-brown, lightest on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ; wings and tail brown, with pale edges to the 

 feathers ; in some specimens there is a more or less distinct 

 buff-coloured eyebrow extending to the beak ; uuderparts 

 white, shaded with buff on the vent and under tail-coverts, 

 and with yellowish brown on the sides of the chest and flanks ; 

 the upper part of the chest has a few obsolete brown streaks ; 

 beak dark brown, shading into orange-yellow on the edges of 

 the upper and basal half of the lower mandible ; legs slaty 

 brown ; irides pale brown ; second primary considerably 

 shorter than the third. 



Entire length 7 inches ; culmen 0*8 ; wing, carpus to tip, 

 3-1 ; tarsus 1-05. 



Fig. Allen, Ibis, 1864, "pi. 1, p. 97. 



45. AcROCEPHALUs TUBDOiDES (Meyer). Great Sedge War 



bier. 



Von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 289) considers this bird 

 to be an accidental winter visitor to Lower Egypt. I have 

 never seen a specimen from that country. 



Very similar to A. stentorius. Underparts more inchning 

 to buff, and without any indication of stripes ; beak shorter 

 and stouter ; upper mandible distinctly notched ; second and 

 tliird primaries equal and longest. 



Entire length 7 inches; culmen 0-65; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 3"6 ; tarsus Tl. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 106. 



