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China. Tlie type was procured at Amoy during the autumn mi- 

 gration and is in the Swinhoe collection. It has recently been 

 obtained in North Fokien in May and October, and there are several 

 skins in the British Museum obtained by Mr. Oates in its winter- 

 quarters in the Burma peninsula. 



38. ACROCEPHALUS ORIENTALIS. 



(CHINESE GREAT BEED-WARBLER.) 



Salicaria twdina orientalis, Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, 

 p. 50 (1847). 



The Chinese Great Reed- Warbler is a large bird, the length of 

 wing varying from 3 to 3i inches. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 20b. 



The Chinese Great Reed- Warbler is a common summer visitor to 

 all the Japanese Islands wherever reed- beds are found. There is an 

 example in the Swinhoe collection from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 153); whence an example had been procured by the Perry 

 Expedition twenty years previously (Cassin, Exp. Am. Squad. China 

 Seas and Japan, ii. p. 221), and whence examples have been recently 

 sent by Mr. Henson. There are five examples in the Pryer collection 

 from Yokohama, and both Mr. Heywood Jones and Mr. Jouy obtained 

 it on Fuji-yam a. 



The Chinese Great Reed- Warbler breeds in Eastern Siberia and 

 North China as well as in Japan, and passes through South China 

 on migration, to winter in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, the 

 Burma peninsula, and the South Andaman Islands. 



39. ACROCEPHALUS BISTRIGICEPS. 



(SCHRENCK'S REED-WARBLER.) 



Acrocephcdus bistrigiceps, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 61. 



Schrenck's Reed- Warbler has a broad dark-brown band on each 

 side of the crown, abruptly defined over the pale eye-stripe, but 

 gradually fading into the plain brown of the top of the head. 



Figures: Schrenck, Reisen und Forsch. im Amur-Lande, i. pi. 12. 

 fig. 4. 



