184 



SYLVIID^. 



North, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 169 (1889); Nehrk. Kat. 

 Eiersamml p. 33 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. 

 p. 181, pi. 9 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 188 (1903). 



The eggs of the Australian Eeed- Warbler resemble those of 

 A. turdoides, but they are generally greyish white in ground-colour, 

 and seldom exhibit any bluish tinge. They measure from -77 to -85 

 in length, and from -57 to -6 in breadth. 



1. Australia (Field Coll.}. 



2. New South Wales. 



1. Dobroyde, N. S. W. (E. P. Ramsay). 



2. South Australia. 



4. Melbourne ( W. Bridger). 



1. Melbourne ( W. B.}. 



4. Victoria (E. P. Ramsay). 



6. Victoria. 



2. Victoria, 3rd Nov. (A. J. North). 



3. River Tana, Australia (S. French). 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



Gould'Cofl. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Govt. of Victoria [P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



Acrocephalns palustris (Bechst.). 



Sylvia palustris, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 191, tab. xxi. fig". 7, a, b 



(1845-54). 

 Calamoherpe palustris, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 19. fig. 16 (1855- 



63) ; Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 215. 

 Acrocephalus palustris, Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iii. p. 1, pi. (1875) ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 573 (1876) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 



p. 101 (1881) ; id. Brit. Birds, i. p. 375, pi. 10 (1883) ; id. Eggs of 



Brit. Birds, p. 198, pi. 52. fig. 9 (1896); Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 188 



(1903). 



The eggs of the Marsh- Warbler are almost miniatures of those 

 of A. turdoides, and the only difference between them, apart from 

 size, appears to be that in the eggs of the present species the 

 underlying lavender markings are more prominent and the shell- 

 markings less dense. The eggs measure from '63 to *8 in length, 

 and from '51 to '58 in breadth. 



3. Holland. 



5. Holland (Tristram Coll.). 



5. Holstein. 



5. Germany, May ( W. Schlilter). 



4. Andernach, Germany (T. Holland). 



1. Halle-a.-S., 3rd June ( W. Schliiter). 



3. Brunswick (Nehrkorn). 



2. Berlin. 



5. Berlin, 9th June (T. Holland). 



4. Dorpat, Baltic Provs., June 



(Russow). 



4. Silesia, 4th June. 

 4. Malaga, Spain, 10th June (H. 



Saunders). 

 4. Malaga, 27th May (A. Ruiz). 



4. Malaga, 16th June (A. R). 



5. Altai Mountains, 7th June (Tancre 



Coll.). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest, 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



