390 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE NILGHIRIS 
in the adult it is quite black; legs and feet fleshy ; artes very: 
dark brown. 
[514.—Cyanecula suecica, Zin. The Red-spot Blue- 
throat. 
This is common in both 8. W. Mysore and the Wy- 
naad.—A.O. H.] . 
? 515.— Acrocephalus stentorius, Hemp. and Ehr. 
The Large Reed Warbler. 
On the 2nd of April last-year, while passing through a coffee 
estate in Charambady, Wynaad, I noticed two large Acroce- 
phali in arose hedge, but I was unable to obtain a specimen, 
so I have entered the species with a query, as it is possible* they 
might have been 515dis.—A orientalis, Tem. and Sch. 
516.—Acrocephalus dumetorum, Bly. The Lesser 
Reed Warbler. 
A cold weather visitant; and very abundant from about the 
middle of December to late in March on the Nilghiris. It 
occurs also in the Wynaad, and I have shot it on the Brama- 
gherries. It frequents gardens, and the undergrowth on the 
outskirts of the jungles, Ww orking its way through tangled and 
dense, vegetation in a marvellous way, and as it moves about, 
keeps continually uttering its peculiar note, which cannot be 
syllablized, but can be produced exactly by placing the tongue 
against the teeth, and drawing it back rapidly. The sexes do 
not vary in size, the following being a resumé of a number 
measured in the flesh :— 
Length, 5:5 to 5:7; expanse, 7 3 to 7:7; tail, 1:95 to 2° 3 
wing, 2: 3 to °255 ; tarsus, 0°9 to 0-95 ; bill from gape, 0°6 to 
0:71; weight, 0- 3 to 0:35 OZ. Upper mandible dark brown ; 
lower mandible fleshy ; legs and feet pale fleshy brown ; irides 
pale wood to yellow brown. 
[517.—Acrocephalus agricolus, Jerd. The Paddy- 
field Warbler. 
I received one specimen of this from the Wynaad.—A. O. H.] 
530.—Orthotomus sutorius, Penn. The Indian 
(a) ai Parlor Bird: 
This bird does not ascend to quite the plateau of the Nilghi- 
ris, but occurs from about the level of Coonoor downward, ‘and 
“I don’t think so as we have stentorius from all over Southern India —Ep., §, F. 
