650 Mr. J. D. D. L;i Touolio on the [This, 



a rale rather lioavily and regularly streaked on the crown 

 and mantle and have the black superciliary stripe very 

 apparent; they are less fulvous above than autmnn birds. 

 The latter are of a warui ochreous light brown above, with 

 very few streaks and a less apparent black eyebrow. Two 

 August specimens, probably birds of tlie year, have this black 

 eyebrow almost entirely concealed, by the fulvous edging of 

 the feathers. 



Iris hazel or greyish hazel ; upper mandible dark brown, 

 edged with fleshy yellow ; lower mandible fleshy yellow ; 

 mouth yellow; legs greenish plumbeous; soles of feet 

 greenish yellow. Total length of a male shot on the 7th of 

 June, 1911, 5'30 in. (135 mm.). 



35. Arundinax aedon (Pallas). 



Arundinac aedon D. & O. p. 254 ; La T. p. 568. 



Pallas's Eeed-Warbler is, next to A. bistrifjiceps, the most 

 conspicuous ol' the Reed-Warblers seen at the port during 

 migration. It ai)pears ni spiing fi'om the middle of iNIay to 

 the beginning of June, and in autumn from about the 17th 

 of August to the end of September. One was shot in 1911 

 on the 16th of October, but it was probably a belated instance. 

 Tliis bird is generally very shy, and consequently it is not 

 always easy to identify, its strong resemblance to A. orien- 

 talis making it often difficult to ascertain which of these 

 species is so sedulously endeavouring to elude observation. 

 It is most jjrobably a siiinnier visitant^, as I once saw it 

 singing on a willow in a likely nesting locality on the 2nd 

 of June. It breeds near Peking on reed-covered ponds 

 (David) . 



This Warbler was common in May and late August 1889 

 about Newchwang. 



36. Tribura tlioracica (Blyth). 

 Dumeticola affinis D. k O. p. 217 (part). 



In ' Les Oiscanx dc; la Chine' Pere David mentions 

 under " Duineticola affinis," birds obtained near Peking 

 in summer which differed slightly from those found in the 



