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Acrocephalus orientalis (Temm. $ Schl.). 



Acrocephalus magnirostris, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 51. 



Acrocephalus orientalis, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 97 (1881) 



Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 357 (1889); Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 187 (1903). 

 Acrocephalus turdoides, var. orientalis, Pleske in Prjev. Reisen, Vog. pi. v. 



fig. 8 (1889-94). 

 Acrocephalus turdoides orientalis, Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 234 



(1891). 



The eggs of the Eastern Great Beed-Warbler are smaller than 

 those of A. turdoides, but otherwise similar to them. They measure 

 from -77 to *84 in length, and from '58 to '61 in breadth. 



8. Amoy, China (R. Swinhoe). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Amoy (R. S. : Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Yangtsepoo, China. J. Whitehead, Esq. [P.]. 



5. Chinkiang, 26th May. 0. B. Rickett, Esq. fP.l. 



3. Chinkiang, 27th May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 



4. Chinkiang, 1st June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 3. Chinkiang, 1st June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 



Chinkiang, 3rd June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 



1. Chinkiang, 3rd June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 4. Chinkiang, 3rd June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 3. Chinkiang, 6th June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 



3. Chinkiang, 6th June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 



4. Chinkiang, 6th June. C. B. Rickett Esq. 



2. Shanghai, China, 5th June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 

 1. Amur River (Dybowski). Crowley Bequest. 



4. Suwa, Hondo, Japan, 23rd June. W. Kadcliffe Saunders. Esq. 



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Acrocephalus stentoreus (Hempr. $ Ehr.). 



Acrocephalus stentoreus, Kb'nig- Warth. J. f. O. 1868, taf. ii. fig. 2 ; 

 Heugl Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 287, taf. xliii. figs. 13-15 (1869); 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 585 (1877) ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 541 

 (1879) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 98 (1881) ; Gates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 356 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests $ Eggs 2nd. 

 Birds, i. p. 224 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 187 (1903). 



The eggs of the Indian Great Reed- Warbler do not differ in any 

 respect from those of A. turdoides. Examples measure from '77 

 to *88 in length, and from '61 to '63 in breadth. 



2. Srinagar, Kashmir, 8th June ( W. Hume Coll. 



E. Brooks). 

 1. Srinagar, 8th June (W.E.B.: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



1. Kashmir, 9th June (C. R. Cock: Crowley Beque&t. 



Tristram Coll.). 



2. Ceylon, July (A. L. Butler). Crowley Bequest. 



Acrocephalus australis, Gould. 



Calamoherpe australis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 402 (1865). 

 Acrocephalus australis, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 100 (1881) ; 



