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Apparently does not differ in habits from the "Western form. Average 

 size of 5 eggs, 23 X 15.5 mm. 



[Still further E. is found A. arundinaceus orientalis (T. & S.), breeding in China, 

 S. E Siberia and Japan, which lays smaller eggs. Average size of 28, 21.04X15-24, 

 Max. 22.5 X 15.5 and 22 X 16.2; Min. 20 X 14.8 and 21.1 X 14.5. In Egypt, the 

 Red Sea district and Palestine, another allied species breeds, the Clamorous Reed 

 Warbler, Acrocephalus stentoreus stentoreus (H. & B.) Eggs figured in J. f. 0., 

 1868, Taf. II. fig. 2 and Heuglin, Orn. N. 0. Afrika, Taf. XLIII, fig. 13—15. They 

 are similar to those of the European Great Reed Warbler: average size of 4, 

 21.9 X 16.05. An Eastern form of this species breeds from Transcaspia to India 

 and Ceylon, A. stentoreus brunnescens (Jeid.). Eggs figured by Dresser, pi. — , 

 fig. 47, 48. Average size of 8 eggs, 21.96 X 15.45.] 



131. Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus streperus (Vieill.). 



Plate 29, fig. 18—21 (Saxony). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl. Tab. XXI, fig. 7,c, e, f (rest = A.palustris). 

 Hewitson, I Ed. I, pi. LXX, fig. 1; II Ed. I, pi. XXV, fig. 3; III Ed. 

 I, pi. XXXII, fig. 1 (2 = palustris). Baedeker, Tab. 19, fig. 11—15. 

 Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 10; id. Col. Fig. pi. 52. Frohawk, Br. Birds, 

 I, pi. II, fig. 56, 57. Cat. Eggs Br. Mus., IV, pi. VIII, fig. 20 (var.). 

 Howard, Br. Warblers, pi. I, fig. 13 — 18. Dresser, pi. — , fig. 7 — 9. 

 Nest: 0. Lee, IV, p. 56. 



British Local Names: Reed Wren or SiKirrow. Welsh: Aderyn 

 y cyrs. Foreign Names: Bohemia: Rdkosnik obecny. Denmark: Ror- 

 sanger. France: Rousserolle effarvatte. Germany: leich-Rohr Sanger. 

 Holland: Kleine KaraJciet. Hungary: Cserrego poszdta. Italy: Cannaiola. 

 Poland: TrzrAonka. Russia: Trostnikowaja Kamyschefka. Sweden: Ror- 

 sdngare. Spain: Pimoleta. 



Acrocephalus streperus (Vieill.). Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 369. Dresser, 

 B. of Europe, II, p. 567 and Man. Pal. Birds, p. 117. Saunders, Man., 

 p. 79. A. strepera strepera (Vieill.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 560. 



Breeding Range: England, S. Sweden, and Continental Europe 

 S. of the Baltic, but eastern limit in Russia as yet uncertain. 

 British Owing to the fact that this bird is chiefly confined in the breeding 



season to the reed grown banks of sluggish streams or still water, it is 

 necessarily somewhat local everywhere, and is entirely absent from moun- 

 tainous districts where the streams flow rapidly and there are few or no 

 reeds. It is however quite common in some favoured spots, especially 

 in the S. and S. E. Counties of England, many pairs nesting within a 

 short distance of one another. It does not breed in Cornwall and is 

 scarce in Devon, except at Slapton. It is also absent from the S. W. 

 Counties of Wales, but breeds in Brecon (Langorse Lake), and in a few 

 localities in N. Wales, where however it is scarce as well as very local. 



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