228 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



eye, with a distinct white eyebrow, reaching from the nostrils 

 to a little beyond the eye ; eyelid also whitish ; cheeks, throat 

 and under surface of body white, the breast and sides of tin 

 body tawny-buff, as well as the thighs and under tail-coverts 

 under wing-coverts, axillaries, and quill-lining, rich tawny-buff 

 bill dark brown, the lower mandible lighter and more yellow a 

 the base and at the gape ; feet pale horn-colour ; iris brown 

 Total length, 7-8 inches; culmen, o'8 ; wing, 3-6 ; tail, 2-95 

 tarsus, 1-3. 



Adult Female. Does n'ot differ from the male in colour 

 Total length, 7-5 inches; wing, 3-6. 



In Autumn and Winter Plumage the colours are a little mor 

 fulvescent, especially on the eyebrow and on the under 

 parts. 



Younj Birds, after the autumn moult, are decidedly mor 

 tawny than in summer, and have some indistinct streaks on th 

 lower throat and fore-neck. During the nesting season, th 

 plumage gets much abraded and worn, so that the throat an 

 breast become bleached white, and the narrow whitish tips t 

 the quills and tail-feathers wear off. 



Kange in Great Britain. A rare and occasional visitor, th 

 authentic instances of its appearance not exceeding half-a 

 dozen, while many supposed records are unworthy of credence 

 as is the case with all the statements of its breeding in thi 

 country. Not that there is any reason why the species shoul 

 not do so, for it is common on the Continent in countrie 

 almost within sight of England. 



Bange outside the British Islands. The Great Reed-Warbl( 

 nests throughout the greater part of Europe south of th 

 British Islands and the Baltic, and is only an accidental visito 

 to the south of Sweden. On the western shores of the Balti 

 Sea it occurs, according to Dr. Pleske, as far north as 59 

 W. lat, thence its range tends southward to 54 on the Volgj 

 and rises again in the Urals to 57, but the above-named autho 

 believes that its frontier line in the Volga district may requir 

 rectification in a northerly direction. It breeds as far east as^ 

 Turkestan, and through Persia, Asia Minor, and Palestine. To 

 the eastward it crosses the range of Acroctphalus stentoreus,\ 



