570 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



a 1 . Much smaller; wing, about 60 mm.; a blackish stripe on each side of crown. 



sorghophilus (p. 570) 

 . Much larger; wing, about 90 mm.; no blackish stripes on the crown. 



orientalis (p. 571) 



551. ACROCEPHALUS SORGHOPHILUS (Swinhoe). 

 LITTLE KEED WARBLER. 



Calamodyta sorghophila SWINHOE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1863), 92 and 293. 



Acroceptialus sorgophilus SEEBOHM, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 94; 

 SHABPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 187; MCGREGOR 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, 

 aides 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 

 whole of lower yellow-ocher ; rictus and inside of mouth yellow; iris 

 ochorous brown; legs and toes plumbeous, with paler soles; upper parts 

 ochorous 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 7 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.) 



