210 CALAMOHERPINA. 
ing the azure of the breast, is a narrow blackish band, then a 
narrow whitish band, and below this again a broad ferruginous 
band ; the upper tail-coverts are brown, mingled with ferrugi- 
nous ; tail rufous, the two centre feathers, and the tips of all the 
others, dark-brown. 
Young males have much less blue on the throat, which is 
often confined to a moustachial streak on each side and a com- 
paratively narrow gorget; they have scarcely any tinge of 
ferruginous on the throat and breast, the former being chiefly of 
a dull white. 
The females have commonly the throat and foreneck dull 
white, encircled with dusky spots, which are more developed in 
old females, and these have sometimes a tolerably broad dusky 
gorget, mingled with a little blue. 
The Indian Blue-throat is a fairly common cold weather 
visitant to all portions of the district, particularly affecting 
swampy ground. 
Sub-raMiIty, Calamoherpine. 
Bill rather large, depressed and broad at the base; rictal 
bristles moderately developed ; tail rounded ; winglet minute. 
Genus, Acrocephalus. 
Wing moderately long; third and fourth quills longest; rictal 
bristles short, a few only ; claws long ; hind-claw curved. 
Acrocephalus stentorius, Hemp & Ehr. 
515.—Acrocephalus brunnescens, Jerd.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. II, p. 154; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 
478; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 405; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 148; Swinhoe and Barnes, Cen- 
tral India; Ibis, 1885, p. 125. 
THE LARGE REED WARBLER. 
Length, 8:5; expanse, 106; wing, 3°62; tail, 3°25; tarsus, 
1:2; bill at front, 0°7. 
Bill dark-brown, fleshy at base beneath ; irides dull greenish- 
yellow ; legs horny-brown. 
Above light olive-brown, darkest on the wings and tail, and 
lightest on the rump; beneath, and eye-brow, with a tinge of 
olive-yellow ; the chin pure white ; wings and tail beneath cine- 
reous ; plumage soft and silky. 
The Large Reed Warbler is a cold weather visitant to the . 
Deccan, Guzerat and Rajputana portions of our limits, but in 
Sind it would appear to be a permanent resident, breeding about 
August. 
Acrocephalus dumetorum, Bly. 
516.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 155; Butler, Guzerat ; 
