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bead by *15 ; the lores, the feathers of which are stiff and 

 point forwards, are mixed brown and yellowish ; a pale fulvous 

 supercilium extends from the nostrils to a little past the eye ; 

 the small plumes clothing the edges of the eyelids are rather 

 paler fulvous than the supercilium ; the whole upper plumage 

 from the base of the bill to the tail-coverts, olive brown, with a 

 strong fulvous tinge pervading all and strongest on the rump 

 and tail-coverts ; the ear-coverts and sides of the neck conco- 

 lorous with the upper plumage, but the shafts of the first 

 conspicuously paler. 



The throat and chin are pale cream color ; the cheeks the 

 same, but with the shafts lengthened, hair-like and black ; the 

 lateral feathers of the chin pi-esent the same peculiarities ; 

 from the chin to the upper breast, silky white in some lights, 

 pale creamy in others, with short longitudinal striations of pale 

 brown few in number in the centre, but increasing at the sides 

 of the breast and neck where they run into each other and are 

 lost in the uniform brown of those parts ; the color of the breast 

 becomes darker laterally ; the lower part of the breast and the 

 sides of the body pale brown, the latter parts strongly tinned 

 with pale buff; the abdomen pale creamy white; and the 

 under tail-coverts clear, pale buff; the thighs, on the outside, 

 are of much the same color as the sides of the body, but as 

 the feathers are dark brown for their basal two-thirds there 

 are signs of bars where they fail to overlap each other. On 

 the inside of the thighs this is not the case. Under wino-- 

 coverts, pale buff, brighter near the edge of the wing. 



The rectrices are brown, with greyish white tips equally 

 conspicuous on both the upper and under sides, and the outer 

 webs are margined very finely with fulvous brown. 



The primaries and secondaries are dark brown, tipped with 

 fulvous white and margined exteriorly with fulvous brown and 

 interiorly with white ; the tertiaries are also dark brown, but 

 more broadly margined on the outer web ; the upper coverts are 

 very broadly margined with fulvous, so much so that when 

 the feathers are lying in their proper places very little of the 

 central dark brown portion is visible. 



517. — Acrocephalus agricolus, Jerdon. 



The only specimen of this, which I have been able to procure, 

 was shot near Wan in the Pegu plains. It was a male and 

 was hopping about the clumps of elephant grass near the canal. 

 Of it, Mr. Hume, who has seen the specimen, says that it is 

 less rufous than Indian examples generally. 



It measured : — Length, 5*3; expanse, 6'6 ; tail, 2'4 ; wino- ? 

 2'1 ; tarsus, '9 ; bill from gape, '7 ; the iris was pale yellow; 

 eyelids, plumbeous ; the upper mandible, dark brown ; the 



