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superciliary stripe, extending from the ba'se of the bill to behind the eye, 

 buff; chin and throat white, becoming suffused with buff oa the breast and 

 rest of the underparts, flanks darker. 



Iris dark brown ; bill and feet brown. 



Total length 5 inches, wing 2-65, culmen 'GO, tarsus -90. 



Adult female similar to the male, but rather smaller. 



The Eeed-Warbler is apparently not very common in Tunisia, and 

 I have but three examples of it in my collection, two of which were 

 obtained near the town of Tunis, and the third near Gafsa in the 

 south. I have only met with the species in spring, and whether it 

 is merely a summer migrant in Tunisia, or whether it also winters 

 there, I cannot say. Regarding the nesting of the Reed-Warbler 

 in the Regency I have no information of a positive nature, but I am 

 inclined to think that individuals of the species remain and breed 

 there, as from South Marocco I have examples obtained as late as the 

 month of May, and Loche states that it breeds in Algeria. In the 

 south of Spain it is a common breeding species. 



The Reed-Warbler is rather skulking in its habits, and is not often 

 to be found far from the neighbourhood of the thick reeds and other 

 water-plants which form its home. Its song, which is varied, and 

 fairly powerful, may often be heard proceeding from a reed-bed, 

 although the songster is hidden from view. Like other aquatic 

 Warblers, it is mainly insectivorous, and its food consists largely of 

 water-insects and their larvae. 



ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS, Bechstein. 

 MARSH-WAEBLER. 



Sylvia palustris, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. i, p. 186 (1802). 

 Acrocephalus palustris, Nanm. Nat. Land. u. Wass. Vog. iwrdl. Deutschl. 



Nachtr. Heft, iv, p. 202 (1811) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v, p. 



101 ; Koetiig. J. f. 0. 1892, p. 215. 

 Calamoherpe palustris, Lochc, Expl. Sci. Ahj. Ois. i, p. 259 (1867). 



Description. — Adult male, from neighbourhood of Tunis, North Tunisia. 



Above greyish olive-brown, greyer on the crown, and brighter on the 



back, rump and upper tail-coverts ; a superciliary stripe pale hnS ; chin and 



