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ing the azure of the breast, is a narrow blackish band, then a 

 narrow whitish band, and below this again a broad ferruginous 

 band ; the upper tail-coverts are brown, mingled with ferrugi- 

 nous ; tail rufous, the two centre feathers, and the tips of all the 

 others, dark-brown. 



Young males have much less blue on the throat, which is 

 often confined to a moustachial streak on each side and a com- 

 paratively narrow gorget ; they have scarcely any tinge of 

 ferruginous on the throat and breast, the former being chiefly of 

 a dull white. 



The females have commonly the throat and foreneck dull 

 white, encircled with dusky spots, which are more developed in 

 old females, and these have sometimes a tolerably broad dusky 

 gorget, mingled with a little blue. 



The Indian Blue-throat is a fairly common cold weather 

 visitant to all portions of the district, particularly affecting 

 swampy ground. 



SUB-FAMILY, Calamoherpinse. 



Bill rather large, depressed and broad at the base ; rictal 

 bristles moderately developed ; tail rounded ; winglet minute. 



GENUS, Acrocephalus. 



Wing moderately long ; third and fourth quills longest ; rictal 

 bristles short, a- few only ; claws long ; hind-claw curved. 



Acrocephalus stentorius, Hemp & Ehr. 



515. Acrocephalus brunnescens, Jerd. Jerdon's Birds of India, 

 Vol. II, p. 154; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 

 478 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 405 ; Murray's 

 Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 148 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Cen- 

 tral India; Ibis, 1885, p. 125. 



THE LARGE REED WARBLER. 



Length, 8'5 ; expanse, 10*6 ; wing, 3'62 ; tail, 3'25 ; tarsus, 

 1*2 ; bill at front, 07. 



Bill dark-brown, fleshy at base beneath ; irides dull greenish- 

 yellow ; legs horny-brown. 



Above light olive-brown, darkest on the wings and tail, and 

 lightest on the rump ; beneath, and eye-brow, with a tinge of 

 olive-yellow ; the chin pure white ; wings and tail beneath cine- 

 reous ; plumage soft and silky. 



The Large Reed Warbler is a cold weather visitant to the 

 Deccan, Guzerat and Rajputana portions of our limits, but in 

 Sind it would appear to be a permanent resident, breeding about 

 August. 



Acrocephalus dumetorum, Sly. 



516. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II; p. 155 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 



