98 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
flesh-coloured, slightly dusky at the tip; legs plumbeous flesh-colour; 
soles of feet yellow ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 5*1 inches, tail 21, wing 2*1, tarsus '8, bill from gape '7 : the 
second primary is generally intermediate between the sixth and seventh, 
and sometimes equals the seventh ; the first primary is large, measuring 
•5 inch in length. The female is of much the same size as the male. 
Schrenck^s Reed- Warbler occurs commonly in the neighbourhood of 
Kyeikpadein in Pegu, where I have procured it from the 5th of November 
to the 15th of April. It is probably found in other parts of the Division ; 
but it is a bird which evades notice, and no one but an eager naturalist 
would be likely to notice it. Mr. Davison procured one specimen at Tavoy 
in Tenasserim. 
It occurs in China. Mr. Swinhoe met with it at Amoy and Pekin ; and 
Pere David says that it passes the hot season in China. It breeds in 
Eastern Siberia and Japan. 
This prettily-marked Reed- Warbler, on its arrival, is to be found in 
inundated rice-fields where the paddy is tall and thick. After the harvest 
it moves into grass-jungle and low brushwood. Its habits are difficult to 
observe, as it is a great skulker and has the greatest objection to showing 
itself. 
A. sorghophilus is a very similar bird, but with the upper parts streaked 
with brown. It is from China, and is not unlikely to be found in Burmah. 
There are many other allied forms from China, too numerous to be referred 
to in a brief work like the present. 
Genus AEUNDINAX, Blyth. 
101. ARUNDINAX AEDON. 
PALLAS^S REED-WARBLER. 
Muscicapa aedon, PalL Reis. Russ. Reichs^ iii. p. 695. Phragamaticola olivacea 
{Bl.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. ii. p. 129. Arundinax olivaceus, Jerd. 
B. Ind. ii. p. 157. Arundinax aedon, Hume, 8. F. ii. p. 234; Armstrong, 
S. F. iv. p. 328 ; Hmne ^ JDav. S. F. vi. p. 339 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 100. 
Arundinax aedon, Bl. B. Burm. p. 104 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 254 ; 
Oates, S. F. x. p. 215. Lusciniola aedon, Seehohm, Cat. Birds B. Mus. v. 
p. 121. 
Description. — Male and female. Upper plumage fulvous olive-brown, 
brightest on the rump ; wing-coverts^ quills and tail brown, the first very 
