ACROCEPHALUS. 187 



Acrocephalus agricola (Jerd.). 



Acrocephalus agricolus, Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 559 (1876). 

 Acrocephalus agricola, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 105 (1881); 



Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 359 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 



$ Eggs Ind. Birds, \. p. 229 (1889) ; Wilson, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. xii. p. 635 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; Sharpe. 



Hand-l. iv. p. 189 (1903). 



The eggs of the Paddy-field Reed-Warbler are of a regular oval 

 form and moderately glossy. They are of a dull greenish-grey 

 colour, blotched all over with greenish brown and pale grey, and 

 with a few blackish specks at the broader end. They are hardly 

 separable from some of the eggs of A. streperus. They measure 

 from *65 to -68 in length, and from -5 to -52 in breadth. 



5. Kirghiz Steppes, July (Henke). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Turkestan (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Acrocephalus baeticatus (Vieill.). 



Calamoherpe rufescens, Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 291. 



Acrocephalus ba3ticatus, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Africa, p. 290 

 (1875-84); Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 106 (1881) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; Stark $ Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, 

 Birds, ii. p. 91 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 189 (1903). 



The eggs of the South- African Reed- Warbler resemble those o 

 A. streperus. They measure from -68 to *73 in length, and from 

 48 to -54 in breadth. 



2. South Africa. W. RadcluTe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, 5th Dec. Seebohm Coll. 



(T. Ayres). 



10. Potchefstroom (T. A.: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 

 Coll.). 



2. East Africa, 12th Feb. Crowley Bequest. 



Acrocephalus syrinx (Kittl.). 

 (Plate IX. figs. 6 & 7.) 



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

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 189 

 (1903). 



The eggs of Kittlitz's Great Reed- Warbler only differ from 

 those of A. turdoides in having the ground-colour greyish white. 

 Three examples measure respectively : -88 by -6 ; -86 by -62 : 

 83 by -6. 



1. Caroline Islands. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Ruk Island, Caroline Group, Crowley Bequest. 



19th May (Tring Mus.). 



