MEGALURUS. 583 
“The striated marsh warbler is found about the open fields. It runs 
rapidly on the ground and skulks in bamboo thickets and patches of tall 
grass and weeds. It soars and attempts to sing while on the wing; also 
perches at the very top of bamboo clumps, and ‘sings’ vigorously.” 
(Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
567. MEGALURUS TWEEDDALEI McGregor. 
TWEEDDALE’S MARSH WARBLER. 
Megalurus ruficeps, not Megalurus ? ruficeps Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1832), 
91, TWEEDDALE, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1877), 20, 95; Proce. Zool. 
Soe. (1877), 695, pl. 72; SHaRpE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 7, 125; 
Hand-List (1903), 4, 202; GRanr and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 240, 
pl. 5, fig. 7 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 219 (habits); Oates 
and Rep, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, 200, pl. 9, fig. 19; McGrecor 
and WoRrcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 89. 
Megalurus tweeddalet McGrReEcor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1908), 3, see. A, 283. 
Banton (Celestino); Basilan (Hverett, Bourns & Worcester); Bohol (Steere 
Ezp., McGregor) ; Cebu (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 
Guimaras (Steere Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Hverett, Whitehead, Mc- 
Gregor) ; Marinduque (Steere Hap.) ; Masbate (McGregor); Mindanao (Platen, 
Goodfellow, Celestino); Mindoro (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Negros 
(Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, Keay, Celestino) ; Panay 
(Steere Hxp., Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; 
Samar (Whitehead); Sibuyan (McGregor); Siquijor (Bourns ¢& Worcester) ; 
Tablas (Bouwrns € Worcester) ; Ticao (McGregor). 
Adult.—Entire top of head rufous-brown; sides of neck and back 
olive-gray, the latter heavily streaked with blackish brown; lower back 
and rump olive-brown; tail-coverts olive-gray with narrow brown shaft- 
lines ; lores, superciliary line, cheeks, and ear-coverts ashy gray; a rufous 
line behind eye; under parts whitish; sides ashy gray, flanks browner; 
thighs and crissum buff; wings and tail brown with lighter brown edges. 
A male from Mindanao measures: Wing, 69; tail, 107; culmen from 
base, 17; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 28. A female from Luzon, wing, 
66; tail, 114; culmen from base, 15; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 27. 
“Five males average: Length, 225; wing, 71; tail, 109; culmen, 18.5; 
tarsus, 27.6; middle toe with claw, 28. Five females, length, 211; 
wing, 68; tail, 104; culmen, 18.5; tarsus, 27.6; middle toe with claw, 28. 
Iris brown; legs and feet light brown.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 
Three eggs of Tweeddale’s marsh warbler, collected by Steere in Marin- 
duque, May 8, 1888, are thus described: “Shape ovate. Ground-color 
very pale pinkish white, sparingly maiked all over with small blotches 
and minute dots of light red and pale violet-gray under-markings, the 
latter forming a more or less distinct zone round the larger pole. 
Measurements 21 mm. by 16 mm. Nest of the bulbul type, lined with 
fine wiry grasses and fiber.” (Grant and Whitehead.) 
