SCHRENCK^S REED-WARBLER. 
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Bill dusky^ fleshy at base beneath ; legs red-brown ; irides yellow- 
brown. (Jerdon.) 
Length 5-8 inches, tail 2'3, wing 2*4, tarsus '9, bill from gape -7 : 
first primary '35 ; the second reaches to about the sixth, or is interme- 
diate between the sixth and seventh. 
The present species may be distinguished from the last by its much 
larger bill, differently shaped wing, and by the absence of a rufous tinge 
on the upper plumage. The female is rather smaller than the male. 
Blyth^s Reed- Warbler has occurred a few times in Pegu, where I have 
obtained it in the plains round Kyeikpadein in the cold weather. Mr. 
Blyth has received it from Arrakan. 
It occurs in the Indo-Burmese countries, and ranges over the peninsula 
of India and the island of Ceylon. In summer it is found in the Hima- 
layas and Central Asia as far as 62° north latitude. 
The few birds I had the opportunity of observing in Burmah did not 
differ in habits from A, agricola. They were shot in paddy or in elephant- 
grass. In Ceylon and India this bird appears to be rather familiars- 
frequenting gardens and the neighbourhood of houses, as well as reed- 
beds. Mr. Andrew Anderson found the nest in the Himalayas on the 
11th of May. It was placed in a rose-bush, and was constructed of coarse 
blades of grass and lined with finer grasses. It was a domed structare, 
and had an entrance at the side, and it contained four eggs, which were 
white speckled with rufous. 
100. ACROCEPHALUS BISTRIGICEPS. 
SCHRENCK^S REED-WARBLER. 
Acrocephalus bistrigiceps, Swmh.Ihis, 1860, p. 51 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 104 ; 
Hume <Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 338 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 100 ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds 
B, Mus. V. p. 94 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 214. Salicaria (Calamodyta) maackii, 
Schrenck, Vog. Amur-Lande, p. 370, pi. xii. figs. 4-6. Calamodjrta xnaackii, 
David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 254. 
Description. — Male and female. Upper plumage russet-brown, brighter 
on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; a distinct black streak on either side 
of the crown of the head ; below this a broad supercilium, running from 
the base of the bill j lores dark brown ; ear-coverts hair-brown ; sides of 
neck like the back ; lower plumage pale buff, lighter on the abdomen and 
nearly white on the chin and throat ; wings and tail brown, edged with 
russet-brown on the outer webs. Tlie lower plumage is more rufous after 
the autumn moult. 
Iris brown ; mouth pale yellow ; upper mandible brown, lower one 
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