64 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 
SYLVIIDZ. 
AcrocEPHALuS, Naumann. 
73. ACROCEPHALUS ORIENTALIS (Bp.), Consp. i. p. 285 (1850), ex Schlegel. 
Salicaria turdina orientalis, Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 50, pl. 21, “ Japan.” 
Acrocephalus magnirostris, Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 51, “ Amoy, Shanghai.” 
Hab. Celebes (Schlegel); Menado (mus. nostr.); Japan (Schlegel) ; China (Swinhoe). 
Two examples of a Jarge Reed-Warbler from Menado agree best with Amoy indivi- 
viduals. I therefore provisionally refer them to the Chinese species. They, however, 
differ from my examples of A. orientalis (Amoy), A. brumnescens (Coorg), and A. arun- 
dinaceus (Linn.) (Holland), in having the rectrices conspicuously tipped with dirty 
white. The proportion of the quills in these examples does not exactly coincide with 
the proportions existing in the other species alluded to; nor do the dimensions com- 
pletely agree. 
Bill. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 
inch. inches. inches. inch. 
A. arundinaceus (Linn.) .......... 4375 3°5625 3250 1-0000 
A. brunnescens (Jerd.) .....-.+.+4- “5625 3°4375 3-250 11250 
AS onientallis  (Bip-)) ite aaies «snd safer “5625 32500 3:000 1:1250 
Acrocephalus, sp., ex Cashmere...... “6250 3°4375 3500 1:1875 
FS . Menado ...... 5625 34375 3:000 1:1250 
A. arundinaceus (Linn.). First long primary nearly as long as second, which is 
longest; third shorter than first. 
A. brunnescens (Jerd.). First much shorter than third and fourth, which are longest. 
In one example the third is longest; in another the fourth is longest. 
A. orientalis (Bp.). Second longest, third nearly equal to second, first equal to fourth. 
Ex Menado. Second longest, first nearly equal to third, first longer than fourth. 
Ex Cashmere. Second equal to fourth, third longest; first somewhat shorter than 
second and fourth, which are nearly equal to third. 
The Cashmere example seems to belong to a distinct species, and differs from 
A. brunnescens of Southern India in its longer and stouter bill, longer tail, and in the 
upper plumage being darker brown. 
CisticoLa, Kaup. 
74. CistIcoLa curSITANS (Franklin), P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118. 
Sylvia cisticola, Temm. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 228 (1820). 
Cisticola schenicola, Bp. Birds of Europe, p. 12 (1838). 
Hab. Macassar (Wallace). For complete range cf. Von Heuglin, Orn. N.-O. Afr. 
pp. 269, 270. 
