356 SYLVIID.E. 



of the wing. The tail is fairly long and greatly rounded, and the 

 feathers are rather narrow and pointed *. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Of large size ; wing about 3. 



a. Second primary shorter than the fifth. A. stentoreus, p. 356. 

 b'. Second primary equal to, or longer 



than the fourth A. orientalis, p. 357. 



b. Of small size ; wing under 2'5. 



e'. With a distinct black stripe over the 



yellow supercilium A. bistrigiceps, p. 358. 



d". With no black stripe over the super- 

 cilium. 

 a". Bill from gape to tip measuring 



under 7. 



a'". Second primary between the 

 sixth and seventh in length ; 



upper plumage olivaceous .... A. diimetorum, p. 359. 

 b'". Second primary between the 

 seventh and eighth or equal to 



eighth ; upper plumage rufous. A. agricola, p. 359. 

 b" . Bill from gape to tip fully '8 . . . . A. macrorhynchus, p. 360. 



363. Acrocephalus Stentoreus. The Indian Great Reed- 

 Warbler. 



Curruca stentorea, Hemp, fy Ehr. Symb. Phys., Aves, fol. bb (1833). 



Agrobates brunnescens, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x, p. 269 (1839). 



Acrocephalus brunnescens (Jerd.), Bh/th, Cat. p. 181 ; Horsf. Sf M. 

 Cat, i, p. 331 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 154 '; Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxxviii, 

 pt. ii, p. 180; Hume, J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 119; Godtv.- 

 Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 270 ; Brooks, J. A. S. B. xli, 

 pt. ii, p. 77 ; Hume $ Hend. Lah. to Yark. p. 214, pi. xvi ; Leyge, 

 S.F. i, p. 488; Blanford, Ibis, 1874, p. 79 ; Butler, S. F. iii, 

 p. 478. 



Calamodyta stentorea (H. $ E.~], Hume, N. Sf E. p. 326. 



Calamodyta meridionalis, Legge, S. F. iii, p. 369 (1875). 



Acrocephalus stentoreus (H. fy J?.), Brooks, J. A. S. B, xliii, pt. ii, 

 p. 245 ; Hume, Cat. no. 515 ; Leyye, Birds Ccyl. p. 541 ; See- 

 bohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 98 ; Doiy, S. F. ix, p. 279 ; Gates, B. B. i, 

 p. 94 ; Davidson, S. F. x, p. 307 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 210 ; 

 Gates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 224. 



The Large Reed- Warbler, Jerd. ; Bora-jitti, Tel. 



* The following species of Reed-Warblers are likely to occur within our 

 limits, but are not yet known to do so : 



ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS (Linn.}, which occurs iu Afghanistan and 

 Yarkand. 



A. sCHCENOBiENus (Linn.), which occurs as far east as Fao in the Persian 

 gulf. 



A. STREPEHUS (Vieill.\ which has occurred at Bampur, in Persian Afghan- 

 istan. 



A. PALUSTRIS (Bechst.}, which has occurred at Fao and in Persia. 



