ACEOCEPHALUS. 



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Acrocephalus orientalis {Temm. ^ ScJiL). 



Acrocephalus magnirostris, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 51 . 



Acrocephalus orientalis, Seebokm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 97 (1881) ; 



Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 357 (1889); 'Sehrh. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 187 (1903). 

 Acrocephalus turdoides, var. orientalis, Pleske in Prjev. Meisen, Fog. pi. v. 



flg. 8 (1889-94). 

 Acrocephalus turdoides orientalis, Taoz. Faune Orn. SibSr, Orient, p. 234 



(1891). 



The eggs of the Eastern Great Eeed-Warbler are smaller thaa 

 those of A. turdoides, but otherwise similar to them. They measure 

 from -77 to -84 in length, and from -58 to "61 in breadth. 



Acrocephalus stentoreus (Jlempr. Sf Ehr.). 



Acrocephalus stentoreus, Kiinig- Warth. J. f. O. 1868, taf. ii. fig. 2 ; 

 Seuffl Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 287, taf. xliii. figs. 13-15 (1869); 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 585 (1877) ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 641 

 (1879) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 98 (1881) ; Oates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 356 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. 

 Birds, i. p. 224 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersafkml. p. 33 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. 187 (1903). 



The eggs of the Indian Great Eeed-Warbler do not differ in any 

 respect from those of A. turdoides. Examples measure from -77 

 to -88 in length, and from -61 to -63 in breadth. 



2. Srinagar, Kashmir, 8th June ( W^. Hume Coll , 



E. Brooks). 

 1. Srinagar, 8th June ( W. E. B. : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



1. Kashmir, 9th June (C. R. Cock: Crowley BequB&t. 



Tristram Coll.). 



2. Ceylon, July {A. L. Butter). Crowley Bequest. 



Acrocephalns australis, Gould. 



Calamoherpe australis, Gould, Ilandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 402 (1865). 

 Acrocephalus australis, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 100 (1881) ; 



