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Species. 
@*. Much smaller; wing, about 60 mm.; a blackish stripe on each side of crown. 
#. Much larger; wing, about 90 -; no blackish stripes on the crown. 
orientalis (p. 571) 
551. ACROCEPHALUS SORGHOPHILUS (Swinhoe). 
LITTLE REED WARBLER. 
Calamodyta sorghophila Swtnuoe, Proce. Zool. Soe. (1863), 92 and 293. 
Acrocephalus sorgophilus SEEBoHM, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 94; 
SHarpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 187; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand- 
List (1906), 87. 
Luzon (McGregor). China. 
Male.—Above tawny olive, uniform and more ocherous on rump and 
tail-coverts; head and back distinctly streaked with dark brown; lores, 
sides of head, and a line above each eye yellow-buff ; on each side of crown 
a long blackish stripe bordering the superciliary line below; a dark line 
on upper border of ear-coverts; under parts pale buff, flanks and thighs 
darker; wings and tail brown and much worn. Rectrices twelve; iris 
daik brown. Wing, 55; tail, 49; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 
8; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 18: hind toe with claw, 14. Bill 
comparatively broad and flat. 
The specimen described above was killed in a bed of reeds on the 
border of Laguna de Bay, January 19, 1902. The only other specimen 
known was taken near Amoy, China, in May, 1861. The original 
description follows: 
Type—“Upper mandible of bill blackish brown, edge of upper and 
whele of lower yellow-ocher; rictus and inside of mouth yellow; iris 
ocherous brown; legs and toes plumbeous, with paler soles; upper parts 
ocherous olive, with a few rather faint streaks of blackish brown; eye- 
brow and cheeks ocherous, more buff-colored on the lores; over the eye- 
brow a black streak marks each side of the head; under parts yellowish 
buff, much paler on the throat, under neck, and center of belly; wing- 
coverts and tertiaries deep hair-brown, margined with ocherous olive; 
quills hair-brown edged with light chestnut-brown; tail pale hair-brown 
margined with reddish olive which color also tinges the rump; inner 
edges of the under wing edged with very pale rusty ocher. Length, 
116.8; wing, 56.6; tail, 47.7; tarsi, 17.7; bill along culmen, 10.6. 
“First quill very small, narrow, and pointed, about 8.6 mm. long; 
second quill ? mm. shorter than the third and fourth, which are equal 
and longest, the fifth quill 3.8 mm. shorter than the third and fourth; 
the sixth 5.5 mm. shorter than the fifth. Tail much graduated, the 
rectrices being narrowed at their tips; tarsi thick; toes and claws strong. 
the hind toe and claw especially so.” (Swinhoe.) 
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