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olive-brown ; a narrow eyebrow of yellowish white from the lores to behind the eye ; chin and 

 throat pale yellowish white ; breast, sides of the body, thighs, under wing- coverts and axillaries 

 yellowish butt'; upper mandible blackish brown ; under mandible, legs, and feet horn-colour; 

 second primary equal to the third, which is the longest, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. This species breeds on the Continent in suitable localities south of the 

 Baltic and the Gulf of Finland, and about lat. 57 in the Urals, but is scarce in Denmark. 

 Southward its range extends to the Mediterranean, and it is known to breed in North-west 

 Africa, but it is not known to nest in Corsica and Sardinia or in the south of the Balkan 

 Peninsula. In Asia it nests in Asia Minor, Palestine, and West Siberia. In winter it migrates 

 to Africa, where it has been met with as far south as Loango, the Transvaal, and Natal, passing 

 through Persia and S. Arabia on migration, and has been recorded about ten times from 

 England. In Eastern Asia it is replaced by allied forms. [F. c. R. j.] 



BLYTH'S REED-WARBLER [Acrocephcdus dumettrum, Blyth]. 



1. Description. Distinguished from the great reed-warbler by its much smaller size. 

 Length 5 in. [127 mm.]. Sexes alike. General colour of the upper surface of the body dull 

 olive-brown ; wings and tail blackish brown, margined on the outer web with olive-green ; an 

 ill-defined whitish eyebrow ; throat whitish, gradually merging into the yellowish buff of the 

 chest and sides of the body ; middle of the belly and abdomen whitish buff; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts yellowish buff ; third and fourth primaries equal and longest ; second 

 primary shorter than the fifth. After the autumn moult the whole of the under parts are 

 suffused with buff. [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. In Europe this species is only known to breed in Russia, north probably 

 to Archangel, west to St. Petersburg, and south to Novgorod, Tver, Moscow and Tula, and east 

 to Orenburg. In Asia it is widely distributed, and breeds in W. Siberia, Transcaspia, Turkestan, 

 Bokhara, the Altai range, and the Himalayas. Its normal winter quarters lie in India south to 

 Ceylon and Pegu, and seven specimens have been recorded from England and Scotland 

 (Yorks. one, Holy Island one, and five or six from Fair Island). [F. c. R. j.] 



CETTI'S WARBLER [Ctitia cetti (Marmora). French, bouscarle; German, Cetti's Rohrsdnger ; 

 Italian, rusiynolo difiumi]. 



1. Description. Recognised by having only ten feathers in its tail. Sexes alike, excepting 

 that the female is slightly smaller. Length 5 in. [127 mm.]. General colour of the upper 

 surface of the body reddish brown, brightest on the rump ; a whitish eyebrow, extending 

 from the base of the bill to behind the eye ; wings and tail blackish brown, margined on the 

 outer web by reddish brown ; chin, throat, middle of breast, and abdomen white ; sides of the 

 head and sides of the chest and body reddish brown ; under tail-coverts reddish brown, fringed 

 with whitish, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. Resident in the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic Isles, South France, 

 Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Italy (except in the north), the Balkan Peninsula north to Dalmatia 

 and Roumania, the Archipelago, Crete, Cyprus, Asia Minor, Palestine, and probably also in South 

 Russia. It also breeds in North-west Africa (Marocco to Algeria), but from the Kirghiz Steppes, 

 Turkestan, and Transcaspia to Eastern Persia it is replaced by an allied race, which is also 

 found wintering in India. Has twice been recorded from England (Sussex, 1904 and 1906). 

 [F. c. R. J.] 



PALLAS'S GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER [Locustella certhiola (Pallas)]. 



1. Description. Recognised by its striped upper plumage and by the black and white 

 tips to the tail. Sexes alike. Length 6 J in. [165 mm.]. General colour of the upper surface of 



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