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the boat is actually on him making a short, sudden flight, and then, before he is far enough to 

 fire without blowing him to pieces, dropping invisible into the waving sea of rushes." 



But little is known respecting the nidification of the present species ; and I have never 

 succeeded in obtaining an authentic nest or eggs for examination and description. Degland and 

 Gerbe say that it nests in the bushes — and that a nest found by M. Lebrun near Montpellier was 

 cup-shaped, and the eggs bluish white, marked with brown dots, chiefly at the larger end ; and 

 the description of its nest and eggs given by Salvadori agrees with the above. Four or five is 

 stated to be the number of eggs deposited by this bird. 



The specimen figured, on the same Plate with the common Sedge- Warbler (Acrocephalus 

 sclmnobcenus), is the adult bird above described, and is in my own collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, 6 . Egypt, March 31st, 1871 (G. E. Shelley), b, ? . Damietta, Egypt, March 28th, 1871 (G. E. S.) . c, $ . 

 Loyah, India, December 17th, 1870 (TV. E. Brooks), d. Etawah, India (TV. E. B.). 



E Mus. Ind. Calc. 

 a, d, b, c, 2 • Shiraz, Persia, d, e,juv. Asupas, Persia (TV. T. Blanford). 



E Mus. G. E. Shelley. 



a, d . Damietta, Egypt, February 20th, 1870 (G. E. S.) . b, c, 6 , d, $ . Egypt, March 22nd, 1871. e, f,g,2- 

 Egypt, March 29th, 1871 (G. E. S.). 



