22 

 GREAT REED WARBLER. 



Acrocephalus turdoides, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp, pi. 72 

 (coloured figure of adult), 1870; Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 

 361-366, pi. 10, fig. 14 (egg), 1883 ; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol.iii, 

 p. 34, pi. 17 (coloured figure of adult), 1886 ; Saunders, Manual of 

 British Birds, 2nd Ed., pp. 83-84 (woodcut), 1898. 



Acrocephalus arundinaceus, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., edited by 

 Newton, vol. i, pp. 364-368 (woodcut), 1873 ; Dresser, Birds of 

 Europe, vol. ii, pp. 579-583, pi. 88 (coloured figures of adult and 

 young), 1878. 



Danish, Bordrossel ; French, Bousserolle ; German, Drossel-Bohrsanger ; 

 Portuguese, Ghinchafoes ; Spanish, Garrisalero ; Dutch, Be groote Karakiet ; 

 Hungarian, Nagy nddirigo ; Italian, Cannareccione ; Eussian, Trost- 

 janoidrosd ; Swedish, Trastsangare. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 



Adult Male in Spring.— The upper parts are huffish rusty 

 grey, slightly more greyish on the crown and nape, but more 

 of a buff colour on the rump and upper tail-coverts. Flight 

 and tail feathers are brown narrowly edged with the same 

 colour as the back, innermost secondaries and the rest of the 

 wing-coverts being broadly margined with this colour. There 

 is a light bullish grey superciliary stripe, the lores are huffish 

 grey, and sides of the head brownish grey. The throat and 

 abdomen are white, crop whitish buff, and sides of the upper 

 breast greyish buff, the latter colour shading into pure buff 

 on the flanks and under tail-coverts. The underside of the 

 wings and tail is greyish brown, the feathers of the latter 

 being tipped with light greyish buff, while the under wing- 

 coverts are pure buff. Iris is dark brown, the small feathers 

 on the eyelid whitish, the upper mandible dark horn colour, 

 and the lower brown at the tip but shading into buff flesh 



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